On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM John Cusick <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I would like to do is completely rebuild the server from scratch while > backing up the entire BackupPC system (configs and backup directory) to a > seperate USB hard drive. After rebuilding the server, I would like to just > restore the /etc/BackupPC directory and the /var/lib/BackupPC directory after > reinstalling the fedora BackupPC rpm package. >
Just a thought that might not be possible or practical in your situation, but maybe you could add a new boot/system drive for a fresh install and mount the old drive somewhere else with symlinks to keep the old /var/lib/BackupPC in the right place. -- Les Mikesell [email protected] _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
