Well, in spite of the advice here (which I refer to as "Plan B", I went ahead and tried transferring the pc directory. I *think* it worked. Everything seems to have transferred to /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<host> (I watched the transfers from a screen session). But now I'm getting constant
Can't extract TopDir (/var/lib/backuppc) from /var/lib/backuppc/cpool/2/4/2/242f729100b09de1378226d1de7066e8 Which, I am hoping is leftover hard links from files in various deleted or aged backups, since it was transferring files with great success for the first several hours, and the pc directories seem to be populated. For as many years as I have been running backuppc, I would be surprised if there wasn't some amount of cruft in the system, but has anyone seen this before? Thoughts? Thanks, --b On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The problem with this approach is that the old backup server is still >> running reiser3 (built before it got long in the tooth) and the new >> one is running ext4...So I have to do it the hard way... > > The even easier approach is to disable backups on the old one but keep > it around for restores for as long as you might want anything from it > - and let the new one start from scratch. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/