On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:56:49AM -0400, Chris Purves wrote:
> I recently copied the pool to a new hard disk following the
> "Copying the pool" instructions from the main documentation.  The
> documentation says to copy the 'cpool', 'log', and 'conf'
> directories using any technique and the 'pc' directory using
> BackupPC_tarPCCopy; however, there is no mention of what to do
> with the 'pool' directory.  I thought it might be created
> automatically when the nightly cleanup runs, but three days later
> and still no 'pool' directory.
> 
> Is this an oversight in the documentation or is the 'pool'
> directory not needed?  I am using BackupPC 3.1.0.

Unless you have compression turned off, the pool directory should be
totally empty.

If you have compression turned off, the cpool directory should be
totally empty.

Whichever one is empty can be ignored.

-Robin

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