Thanks for the advice and info. I'm unable to add another drive to this system so I think I'll go with both rsync and a tarball of the critical directories into an externally mounted drive then rebuild the system and see what happens :)
After reading through the various archives I was a little concerned about all the references to hard links even though I did check the dates of the archived messages and knew they were for the earlier versions (fedora delivers V4) For what it's worth, kudos to all those that built this system and to those who help out users like me. I used it within a DoD environnment for a couple of small Labs I maintained prior to retirement and rarely had an issue... and all my users loved it and the fact that they could log into the web interface and restore accidentally deleted files or directories themselves without causing a stir (or panic). It's a wonderful backup system for home or smaller work environments. I'll follow up and let you know how it goes. Regards, John C. On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 7:25 AM Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
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