On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Dan Smisko <dan AT balanced DOT com> wrote:

After an absence because of personal issues, I have replaced the drive.
The only thing on the drive was the backup data, configuration is in /etc.
The drive is writable by backuppc.

After I start the backuppc daemon the BackupPC_TrashClean process starts.
I started a full dump of the host "test".  BackupPC_dump -f test started,
but nothing happened.  The failure message is:

unable to open/create /mnt/b1/pc/test/XferLOG.z

Do I have to run the "perl configure.pl" command in the distribution
source to set up the backup directories?  Will it remember my old answers?
Will it overwrite the configuration in /etc/backuppc/config.pl?
Thanks very much for any help you can provide.

Dan Smisko
Balanced Audio Technology
1300 First State Blvd.
Suite A
Wilmington, DE  19804
(302)999-8855
(302)999-8818  fax
dan AT balanced DOT com



Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
>
>

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