Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 09/20 05:31 , David Mansfield wrote:
>> At any rate, the disk had some bad sectors so in either case I was going
>> to end up with some corruption of the cpool, which is why I want to
>> verify it. Do you have any ideas here?
>
> Not really. I'd suggest keepi
David writes:
> I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a
> new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the
> cpool/ and pc/ directories using tar, which seems to be preserving the
> hard links (in doing so it's chewing up VAST amounts of memory on
Hi,
David Mansfield wrote on 20.09.2007 at 09:55:28 [[BackupPC-users] is it
possible to verify the cpool?]:
> I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a
> new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the
> cpool/ and pc/ directories
On 09/21 10:13 , David Mansfield wrote:
> True, but I'm just concerned that if the pool file is corrupt that
> backuppc will skip/link it for the next backup because the checksum is
> cached or something...
I am not familiar enough with the architecture of BackupPC to know for
certain, but I *be
On 09/20 05:31 , David Mansfield wrote:
> At any rate, the disk had some bad sectors so in either case I was going
> to end up with some corruption of the cpool, which is why I want to
> verify it. Do you have any ideas here?
Not really. I'd suggest keeping the old disk around just in case; but
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 09/20 09:55 , David Mansfield wrote:
>> I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a
>> new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the
>> cpool/ and pc/ directories using tar,
>
> dd or dd_rescue is a better opti
On 09/20 09:55 , David Mansfield wrote:
> I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a
> new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the
> cpool/ and pc/ directories using tar,
dd or dd_rescue is a better option, since it doesn't use up memory to ke
I have recently had to transfer the entire backuppc installation to a
new server due to the demise of the old one. I am transferring the
cpool/ and pc/ directories using tar, which seems to be preserving the
hard links (in doing so it's chewing up VAST amounts of memory on the
'create' side,
