On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:15 +0200, Joseph Holland  
<joseph.holland AT kepak DOT com> wrote:

> Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our
> company.  Recently one of the servers went down.  We have been using
> rsync to backup the BackupPC'c data directory onto a USB drive.  I'm
> just wondering is it possible to restore this data over a fresh install
> of BaclupPC on another server?  I know that I will probably need the
> /etc/BackupPC and the /usr/local/share/BackupPC directory's to do this
> and have copied them over my fresh install of BackupPC, but it will not
> see the old backups.  It can see however all the hosts that I was
> backing up, but says that they have never been backed up by this new
> install (which is true).
>
> Can anyone help me???
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> JoeH.
>
>


Did you rsync with the hardlinks option?

You can always try to mount the usb disk at the appriorate folder. That  
should work (atleast it did for me, when doing some testing)

Greetings,
Koen Linders


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