Yes, only the backup data (pool, cpool, etc) was on the dead drive. The
config is in /etc/BackupPC.
I guess I will try to re-create the backup directories and try another
backup.
Certainly a RAID is worth considering, but the next question is what to
put on a RAID drive.
A dead root drive would not be much fun either. My preference would be
software RAID
for portability, but I don't know about performance. Does software RAID
work on a Linux
root drive?
Thanks again for your help.
Dan Smisko
Les Mikesell wrote:
The answer to this is going to depend on how you installed originally
and where the configuration lives. If the only things on the dead drive
were the pool/cpool/trash/pc directories you can probably re-create them
(or that might happen by itself as long as the mount point is writable
by backuppc).
This would be a good opportunity to think about using a RAID mirror for
the replacement, though.
On 1/22/2010 4:24 PM, Dan Smisko wrote:
>> I have a BackupPC 3.0.0 system that has been running well for some time,
>> but the backup drive
>> has just failed. I have some replacement hardware that I'm looking at,
>> but what I
>> would like to do immediately is to plug in a replacement drive and
>> continue with the
>> current setup. At this point resuming backups is more important than
>> trying to retrieve
>> (possibly unrecoverable) old data.
>>
>> Is there is simple way to do that? Can I just plug in a
>> new drive in and everything will proceed merrily along? If not, can I
>> manually initialize
>> the new drive? Failing that, what is the quickest procedure to get the
>> current backup
>> system back up and running. I apologize if there's already a document
>> for this, please
>> point me to it.
>>
>
>
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