Kameleon wrote:
> I was able to get a full backup on 3 of the 4 servers. Two of them I was 
> able to take the backuppc machine to the location and the third it was 
> small enough to be able to complete over the T1. However we have one 
> remaining remote location that has approximately 309GB of data that 
> needs backing up. This initial full will take anywhere in the range of 
> 10-20 DAYS according to my numbers.
> 
> However, we do have an rsync of that server on another in-house server. 
> It is a complete rsync minus a few directories like /proc /var etc. So 
> we don't have to take the backuppc machine 3 hours away, does anyone 
> know if it would be possible to somehow setup backuppc to use the 
> complete existing in-house rsync as the base for the initial full backup?
> 
> The setup on the rsync backup is that the entire backup is stored in 
> /server/servername. Since backuppc stores the files in relation to the 
> root directory how would I move the files from 
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/rsync-server/0/f%2fserver%2fremoteserver to 
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/remoteserver/0/f%2f? Should it be as simple as 
> moving the folders? Or is this even possible?

One way would be to initially set up the new server backup with a clientalias 
setting pointing to the local copy.  Then after you have a full, remove the 
clientalias or change it to the real target.

But, mv'ing the directories should work too - as long as everything is on the 
same filesystem and it is done in a way that doesn't break the hardlinked files 
underneath.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmiksell AT gmail DOT com

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