Hi all, A recurring theme I've noticed is the pre-loading and migration challenge. We just finished work on a corrupt pool one of our offsite instances, which BackupPC was unable to fix properly despite checksum prob 1.0. We decided to move to a fresh pool, and keep the old one on cold storage until retention runs out. In the process, I created a script that proved useful for other situations as well.
This script can save (restore to tar), seed (pre-load) and move (migrate, switching between old and new backuppc partitions on the same server) BackupPC backups. It works at least for tar and rsync transfer modes and with BackupPC 3.3.0. For migration, it is considerably faster and more portable than migrating the pool, but previous backups will not be included. Migrating to another server is done using save on the old and seed on the new. Some use cases I can think of for this script are: - Preloading secondary servers at a remote location - Moving to another partition when hardlink preservation takes too long - Taking the usable parts of a corrupt pool when starting a fresh one The details are on: http://johan.ehnberg.net/backuppc-pre-loading-seeding-and-migrating-moving-script/ The latest version of the script is found here: https://owncloud.molnix.com/index.php/s/t879KKwnHg7nHDu Best regards, Johan -- Johan Ehnberg [email protected] +358503209688 Molnix Oy molnix.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
