When you are successful in achieving this (and relaxed that you have you
backups back), it would be nice if you could jot down your experiences
in the BackupPC Wiki.
Regards & Wish you success.
Peter


----- Original message -----
From: "dan" <dandenson AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Johan Ekh" <ekh.johan AT gmail DOT com>
Cc: "BackupPC users' mailing list"
<backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:34:59 -0600
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Stolen backuppc server

Install a new backuppc server ( or one in a virtual machine ) and then
mount
your NFS network drive to the $TopDIR which is likely to be
/var/lib/backuppc if you are using debian or ubuntu.  You can go to
vmware
and download an ubuntu 8.04 server image that is ready to run and do a
quick
'apt-get install backuppc' and when that is done do 'mount -t nfs
*.*.*.*:/nfs/path/to/backuppc/files /var/lib/backuppc'. you then either
need
to get the config files for the old hosts, that can be done by loging in
to
the net backuppc servers web interface and selecting localhost, which
should
be populated from the localhost section of $TopDIR, and restore the
backuppc
directory out of the /etc backup.

Once the config files are restored, you are ready to continue using
backuppc
OR you can restore from any of the old hosts as you have everything
needed,
the config file and the pool and the pc directory.

I think you can get this accomplished in 1 hour or less if you have high
speed internet to download the vmware image or ubuntu sever iso.

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Johan Ekh <ekh.johan AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I use backuppc on a suse linux server to back up a number of computers on a
> NFS mounted network disk.
> Now somebody has stolen my suse server. I still have the network disk
> though.
>
> What is the best way to retrieve all my data?
>
> Please help with simple instructions if possible. I am not an expert.
>
> Best reagards,
> Johan
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