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Re: [BackupPC-users] Uninstall - reinstall BackupPC: what gets retained?

2009-04-23 09:11:50
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Uninstall - reinstall BackupPC: what gets retained?
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:07:05 -0500
On 04/23 02:16 , Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> because of a removal of samba (which also removed samba-common, thus
> backuppc too), I had to reinstall backuppc (apt-get install backuppc).
> I've lost the host configuration files, but this is not a big trouble.
> What now matters to me is: what will I have to do to get backuppc to
> recognize the already stored pool and its files, in a way that it
> doesn't have to re-backup *everything*?

Provided the files are in the correct place, it should just automatically
recognize them and use them.

Backuppc's tree of files stored in a heirarchy according to their hashed
names, means the storage *is* the database.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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