Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 01:34 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Is there any kind of BackupPC data on the machine itself >> required for recovery of the archived material? > > If your installation is Ubuntu, you need: > > /etc/backuppc > /var/lib/backuppc > > It's common to have the second of these on its own datastore. If you're > replicating that elsewhere, or recovering the disks, also make sure you > regularly backup /etc/backuppc as well. > > To recover the data, just install backuppc on the new server, and move > those two directories to the same place. > > Other distros have similar directory structures.
I should have said that I am running CentOS-5.6 on my BackupPC machine. Also /var/lib/BackupPC is linked to another partition /BackupPC . I can see that I should save /etc/backuppc , but is it really necessary to save /var/lib/BackupPC/ ? This seems to be exactly what BackupPC has archived, and is almost the same size as the archive file (48GB archive file against 34GB /BackupPC in my case). (I have actually copied everything to another computer, but that was just so I can copy back to another disk.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
