I have a situation where a single laptop was replaced twice, but with all the data ghosted from one laptop to another. The computer name was then changed, and a new BackupPC entry created. I therefor
i think that on one hand, this may not matter, because pooling would make sure that files are only stored once. but it does make a bit of a mess in so far as having one machine refer to one thing goe
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:49:51 -0500
If it's the same data, why merge them at all? Why not just delete the superfluous backups? -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need
Author: Robert Kosinski <robert.kosinski AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:31 -0400
If the data is non-overlapping, restore the "dead data" to the live laptop, allow a backup to happen, then delete the obsolete sets. If you can't figure out which data is unique then the backups prob
I have a situation where a single laptop was replaced twice, but with all the data ghosted from one laptop to another. The computer name was then changed, and a new BackupPC entry created. I therefo
The backups are what are non-overlapping, not the data, meaning, each backup set contains full and incremental backups where the dates of the backups do not overlap with the dates of the full and inc
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:41:16 +0100
Isn't this just a matter renaming/moving directories in /var/lib/backuppc/pc? mv /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hostname2/0 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hostname1/31 etc. Plus the logs. Tyler -- "I have never killed a
I will try that. Thanks for the tip. Peter -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing
Author: Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:53:58 -0700
You have to do more than that. You also need to merge (concatentate) the backups files, and change the first entry of each line so that matches the number of the data directory when you rename it as
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:12:57 -0400
Peter Walter wrote at about 12:10:52 -0400 on Friday, October 16, 2009: Well assuming that each set of backups has a coherent set of full and incrementals, then you can manually renumber the backups