On Friday 07 October 2011 17:50:58 Ram Rao wrote:
> I have successfully been using backuppc on my Ubuntu 10.04 system for over
> a year to back up a couple of Linux clients.
> 
> I  now desire to install Ubuntu 11.04 (on a different partition) on the
> system which serves as my backuppc server.  I would like to configure
> backuppc on 11.04 to use the backup information I have been using on
> 10.04, and have the freedom to reboot between the two systems without
> impacting the backups of clients.  On my 10.04 system, I had created
> /var/lib/backuppc on a separate LVM volume.  Besides mounting this on my
> 11.04 system, what else do I need to do enable preserving backuppc data in
> this dual-boot environment?

You also need the settings of /etc/backuppc. And you will definitely want to 
backup these with a different method in case the newer version breaks the 
config-files.

Have a nice weekend,

Arnold

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