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
Need to ask. Can you really run this? #su - backuppc -c "/usr/bin/touch /mnt/b1/pc/test/x.txt" or just #su - backuppc -c "/usr/bin/touch /mnt/b1/x.txt" if you don't have the directories yet. Sorry if
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 immedi
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:00:36 -0600
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
Yes, only the backup data (pool, cpool, etc) was on the dead drive. The config is in /etc/BackupPC. I guess I will try to re-create the backup directories and try another backup. Certainly a RAID is
Author: Chris Robertson <crobertson AT gci DOT net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:58:41 -0900
Sure. You can put /boot on a RAID1 and use any layer of software RAID for the rest. Chris -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data cent
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:06:03 -0600
It should look the same - just mount an md? device instead of sd??. Yes, you should be able to install on raid with the only consideration being that /boot (or / if /boot is not a separate partition)