Re: [BackupPC-users] moving the backup data

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Felix Andersen wrote:

> So for various reasons I am copying my backuppc stuff from the
> directory /mnt/oldb/var/lib/backuppc to /mnt/newb/backuppc. The stuff
> will later be mounted in the right places and so on.
>         
> I ran "sudo cp /mnt/oldb/var/lib/backuppc/ /mnt/newb/ -rp". When the
> copying was done i ran "df -h" giving the following output:
> /dev/hdd1              37G   33G  1,8G  96% /mnt/oldb
> /dev/hdc1             230G   95G  124G  44% /mnt/newb
> Seemed really strange...
> 
> Running "sudo
> du ../newb/backuppc/cpool ../newb/backuppc/log ../newb/backuppc/pc 
> ../newb/backuppc/pool ../newb/backuppc/trash -hs"
> gives
> 4,0K    ../newb/backuppc/cpool
> 84K     ../newb/backuppc/log
> 67G     ../newb/backuppc/pc
> 28G     ../newb/backuppc/pool
> 4,0K    ../newb/backuppc/trash
> 
> and running "sudo
> du ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/cpool ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/log 
> ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/pc ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/pool 
> ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/trash -hs"
> gives
> 4,0K    ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/cpool
> 84K     ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/log
> 29G     ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/pc
> 18M     ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/pool
> 4,0K    ../oldb/var/lib/backuppc/trash
> 
> What is happening with the pc and pool directories?

It looks like you copied without preserving hardlinks (how did you do
the copying, exactly?).

Try du -l on the old pool and you should get the same results as for the
new.

HTH,

Tino.

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