Hi Folks,
I got a little problem. I got a new job within a new firm which is the
legal successor of another firm. This old firm is already terminated and
all we got left from the IT infrastructure is a dd image of the
BackupPC-Server. I reconstructed it into a harddisk on our new
backup-server which will use BackupPC as the backup solution of choice.
We want to keep the old backup data and add our new infrastructure to it.
What I did that far is:
1. Set up Ubuntu 10.04 lts server and installed BackupPC. Works.
2. Restored the dd image on a brand new 2 TB harddisk. The process
finished and gave me a harddisk with obviously the data structure the
original machine had. It does not boot since the underlying hardware
does not match the specs of the old OS (CentOS 5.1.)
3. Created symbolic links in the BackupPC working directory
(/var/lib/backuppc/) pointing to the corresponding directories on the
new 2TB harddisk partition.
4. Changed ownership of the old BackupPC-directories on the new 2TB
harddisk to match the new Ubuntu installation (backuppc:backuppc)
recursively so that BackupPC has all the rights it needs.
5. Restarted BackupPC. Came up properly.
Doing so I hoped that BackupPC would recognize its former data and
import it, so I can rebuild the old backups into new virtual machines,
so our developers are able to access the data they need via CVS. But it
didn't work. The BackupPC web interface doesn't show up any of the old
machines. So I can't rebuild them.
Is there anyone out there who would help me solve my problem?
I tried several other ways like rebuilding the original dd image into a
VirtualBox image and booting that, but this didn't work because the old
Admin messed up the system so that BackupPC doesn't start in it because
of user rights problems (the interface starts as the apache user and
thus will not connect to the BackupPC-server). Since our bosses want to
keep BackupPC as the companies' backup strategy the import solution this
is no longer a solution, too.
Kind regards,
ChromeSilver
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