Hi,

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:24:46PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to access backups created with another BackupPC installation.
>>
>> I thought it would just require:
>>
>> 1. copying the TopDir with rsync -avzH
>> 2. changing the ownership of the TopDir to correct user/group
>> 3. adding the hostnames in the hosts config file.
>>
>> I get the hosts to appear in web interface, but when accessing them it
>> tells me "This PC has never been backed up!!" and I cannot browse the
>> backups.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>
> Did you copy the whole pc/ directories? Including the pc/xyz/backups
> files?

Yes I did. I actually solved my problem, it was the same as with the
htpasswd file: SElinux denial. I still haven't used to looking at the
audit.log for errors...

> Note that copying a whole pool (while preserving hardlinks) is still
> tough and will only work up to a certain pool size/file count (apart
> from copying a whole file system image).

Do you have any more info on this (about the limits)?

Why is it so, can't rsync handle big amounts of data including hardlinks?

Regards,
Peter

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