Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-07-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Chris Robertson wrote on 2009-02-24 11:44:49 -0900 [Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool]: > Tino Schwarze wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:58:32PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> > >> What happens if you just copy

Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-02-24 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Chris Robertson wrote at about 11:44:49 -0900 on Tuesday, February 24, 2009: > Tino Schwarze wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:58:32PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > >> Craig Barratt wrote: > >> > >>> I don't think there is a way to transfer a single host's backups using > >>>

Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Robertson
Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:58:32PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Craig Barratt wrote: >> >>> I don't think there is a way to transfer a single host's backups using >>> BackupPC_tarPCCopy. >>> >> What happens if you just copy a single host's backup tree withou

Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-02-24 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:58:32PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig Barratt wrote: > > > > I don't think there is a way to transfer a single host's backups using > > BackupPC_tarPCCopy. > > What happens if you just copy a single host's backup tree without regard > to the cpool links (assuming

Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-02-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig Barratt wrote: > > I don't think there is a way to transfer a single host's backups using > BackupPC_tarPCCopy. What happens if you just copy a single host's backup tree without regard to the cpool links (assuming you have space)? Will subsequent runs put links into cpool so the wasted s

Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-02-23 Thread Craig Barratt
sabujp writes: > In the last command that runs BackupPC_tarPCCopy, does this perl command look > at any of the configuration files on the local host or does it just get what > it needs to re-generate the hard links straight from the old "pc" directory? > I looked through the code and don't see

Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-02-19 Thread Les Mikesell
sabujp wrote: > >> Hard-links cannot cross >> filesystems, so creating a second filesystem won't work. Your only >> choice would be to create a second BackupPC instance and move clients >> over to the new instance. >> > > > Well this is possible using the instructions here: > > http://backupp

[BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-02-19 Thread sabujp
> > Hard-links cannot cross > filesystems, so creating a second filesystem won't work. Your only > choice would be to create a second BackupPC instance and move clients > over to the new instance. > > > Well this is possible using the instructions here: > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.n

[BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2009-02-19 Thread sabujp
> Hard-links cannot cross > filesystems, so creating a second filesystem won't work. Your only > choice would be to create a second BackupPC instance and move clients > over to the new instance. > Well this is possible using the instructions here: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/move_b

Re: [BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2008-08-05 Thread Jon Craig
I am inferring from your email that your "data" filesystem for BackupPC is maxed out and you cannot grow. Your thoughts are to create a new filesystem and start spliting things up between them. If this is true then I believe your answer is "no". BackupPC does de-duplication using hard-links betw

[BackupPC-users] move a specific backup (share) from one pool to another pool

2008-08-04 Thread sabujp
Is it possible to move all of the backups and incrementals of a particular share (/home/user) from one data directory (pool) into another? Let's say I've got 100 home directory shares that use up 16TB of data in one top level directory (pool). I cannot expand this volume beyond 16TB but I can