Pat Rice wrote:
> HI all
> Well at the moment I an recovering from a flooding situation.
> I had my office flooded to 2.5ft of water. Luckily the Backup server
> (backup pc) was above the water line and also my hard drive for my
> backup server. Unfortunately my machines that were on the ground, were
> not so lucky. I have spent one or two days pouring water out of
> machines, not a pleasant sight!!!!
>
> I have a new hard drive as I am worried about the hard drive that was
> already in the system, being exposed to the damp/water etc.
>
> So I want to try and get the data off it, and reconnect it the server.
> The Ideal situation would be a rsync copy of the server at a different
> location (anyone have this done ?).
>
> I had it set up as a LVM so /lib/backuppc/<backups>
>
> What I would like to know, or if any on had any experience of:
> Making a mirror or the backup disk:
> Should I do a dd?
> or would a copy be sufficient ?
> or will I have to worry about hard links that need to be kept ?
>
>
> Or should I just bite the bullet and put in a rsync server and take my
> chances with the disk?
> Any advice would be greatly received.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Pat
>   

See the FAQ section "Copying the pool" under the header "Other 
installation topics" 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#other_installation_topics

Chris


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