Re: [BackupPC-users] moving the pool disk to another computer -- file ownership

2016-04-28 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "rowens" > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:21:38PM -0400, Christophe Gouinaud wrote: >> Helo, >> >> > Le 25 avr. 2016 à 16:28, Rob Owens a écrit : >> > >> > I had an issue with the root filesystem of my backuppc server (system A) >> > which >> > required a resto

Re: [BackupPC-users] moving the pool disk to another computer -- file ownership

2016-04-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:21:38PM -0400, Christophe Gouinaud wrote: > Helo, > > > Le 25 avr. 2016 à 16:28, Rob Owens a écrit : > > > > I had an issue with the root filesystem of my backuppc server (system A) > > which > > required a restore. So I moved the pool disk to another computer (syst

Re: [BackupPC-users] moving the pool disk to another computer -- file ownership

2016-04-25 Thread Christophe Gouinaud
Helo, > Le 25 avr. 2016 à 16:28, Rob Owens a écrit : > > I had an issue with the root filesystem of my backuppc server (system A) > which > required a restore. So I moved the pool disk to another computer (system B), > installed backuppc on that computer, booted system A off of a live CD, an

[BackupPC-users] moving the pool disk to another computer -- file ownership

2016-04-25 Thread Rob Owens
I had an issue with the root filesystem of my backuppc server (system A) which required a restore. So I moved the pool disk to another computer (system B), installed backuppc on that computer, booted system A off of a live CD, and prepared for a restore. However, system B assigned a different

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-24 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Ahhh that would explain... I have added the routine to the Wikki - hopefully that will avoid some of the whitespace issues https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=BackupPC_CopyPcPool Hopefully that helps... Michael Stowe wrote at about 11:19:51 -0500 on Tuesday, May 24, 20

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-24 Thread Michael Stowe
> You shouldn't be getting *any* warnings or errors. > - What version are your running of BackupPC_copyPcPool? > - Are you sure you have my library jLib.pm properly installed? > > Actually, the errors don't even make sense the whole > BackupPC_copyPcPool.pl file has less than 1100 lines while you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-24 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
exarkun wrote at about 06:21:37 -0700 on Tuesday, May 24, 2011: > Can you give an example of how to run your BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl script? > No matter what I do, I get the error: > > Backup './pc' does not contain a 'backupInfo' file > > I have tried (from /var/lib/BackupPC): > > /us

[BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-24 Thread exarkun
Can you give an example of how to run your BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl script? No matter what I do, I get the error: Backup './pc' does not contain a 'backupInfo' file I have tried (from /var/lib/BackupPC): /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl -o original.tar ./ Backup './trash' does not

[BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-24 Thread exarkun
Can you give an example of how to run your BackupPC_copyPCPool.pl script? No matter what I do, I get the error: Backup 'cpool/0' does not contain a 'backupInfo' file I also get all these warnings/errors (not sure if I can ignore them...) Thanks "my" variable $bpc masks earlier declaration in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Timothy J Massey
Les Mikesell wrote on 05/11/2011 04:56:24 PM: > On 5/11/2011 1:44 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > > > That would have been my strong suggestion: do a dd of the JFS partition > > and resize when done. (Does parted understand JFS? Use that if it does: > > it'll be even faster.) > > Partclone cla

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 1:44 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > That would have been my strong suggestion: do a dd of the JFS partition > and resize when done. (Does parted understand JFS? Use that if it does: > it'll be even faster.) Partclone claims to handle jfs: http://partclone.org/feature.php and for the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Rob Sheldon wrote at about 12:04:15 -0700 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:32:56 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > How big was your pool and pc tree? > > We currently have two BackupPC servers we work with -- one of them is > only about 20G of disk but is using

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 2:04 PM, Rob Sheldon wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:32:56 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > >> How big was your pool and pc tree? > > We currently have two BackupPC servers we work with -- one of them is > only about 20G of disk but is using a silly number of inodes (it's >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Rob Sheldon
On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:32:56 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > How big was your pool and pc tree? We currently have two BackupPC servers we work with -- one of them is only about 20G of disk but is using a silly number of inodes (it's backing up a maildir mail server, among other things),

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Timothy J Massey
Les Mikesell wrote on 05/11/2011 01:18:45 PM: > On 5/11/2011 10:45 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > > > Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB backup pool > > from one jfs array to another on the same system. Both arrays are RAID-5 > > via mdadm. > > > > I'm using "rsync -avP

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 12:42 PM, Rob Sheldon wrote: > > > I had to do this a while back and, like you, found that rsync didn't > seem to work well. I ended up using a tarpipe instead, and that worked > great. I can't find my notes for the exact chant I used for it, but this > should be a good start:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Rob Sheldon wrote at about 10:42:03 -0700 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011: > On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:45:01 -0500, Michael Stowe wrote: > > Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB backup > > pool > > from one jfs array to another on the same system. Both arrays are > > RAID-5

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Rob Sheldon
On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:45:01 -0500, Michael Stowe wrote: > Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB backup > pool > from one jfs array to another on the same system. Both arrays are > RAID-5 > via mdadm. > > I'm using "rsync -avP -H src dest," which I started Friday, nearly

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/11/2011 10:45 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: > > Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB backup pool > from one jfs array to another on the same system. Both arrays are RAID-5 > via mdadm. > > I'm using "rsync -avP -H src dest," which I started Friday, nearly five > days ago.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Stowe
> How many files in the pool and the pc tree? I'll have to get back to you on that ... > Well if that doesn't work or if you get tired of waiting, you can try > my script BackupPC_copyPCpool.pl > (actually it would be great to get more people benchmarking it to see > how fast it is relative to st

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Michael Stowe wrote at about 10:45:01 -0500 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011: > > Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB backup pool > from one jfs array to another on the same system. Both arrays are RAID-5 > via mdadm. > > I'm using "rsync -avP -H src dest," which I start

[BackupPC-users] Moving the Pool

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Stowe
Thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of moving my 1TB backup pool from one jfs array to another on the same system. Both arrays are RAID-5 via mdadm. I'm using "rsync -avP -H src dest," which I started Friday, nearly five days ago. The data in cpool moved relatively quickly. On the othe

Re: [BackupPC-users] Moving the pool and changing the pools filesystem

2006-10-03 Thread David Rees
On 10/2/06, Steffen Heil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My current pool is on a 80 GB raid1 lvm-backed device using ext3. > Now one of the drives failed and the pool is 82% full. > > So I got 2 new 200 GB drives, configured them with raid1 and lvm using xfs. > > So, how do I get the pool over there?

[BackupPC-users] Moving the pool and changing the pools filesystem

2006-10-03 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi My current pool is on a 80 GB raid1 lvm-backed device using ext3. Now one of the drives failed and the pool is 82% full. So I got 2 new 200 GB drives, configured them with raid1 and lvm using xfs. So, how do I get the pool over there? cp -a is already running for 3h and got 12GB so far... (i