I am inferring from your email that your "data" filesystem for
BackupPC is maxed out and you cannot grow.  Your thoughts are to
create a new filesystem and start spliting things up between them.  If
this is true then I believe your answer is "no".  BackupPC does
de-duplication using hard-links between the files in the pc/[host]/*
directory and the (c)pool directory.  Hard-links cannot cross
filesystems, so creating a second filesystem won't work.  Your only
choice would be to create a second BackupPC instance and move clients
over to the new instance.

I also anticipate that moving clients past backups between instances
would prove very difficult. You may be able to do something with
BackupPC_tarCreate and BackupPC_tarExtract.

On 8/5/08, sabujp <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
>
>  Is it possible to move all of the backups and incrementals of a particular 
> share (/home/user) from one data directory (pool) into another?
>
>  Let's say I've got 100 home directory shares that use up 16TB of data in one 
> top level directory (pool). I cannot expand this volume beyond 16TB but I can 
> get another 16TB volume.
>
>  Is it possible to "extract" the backup data for a particular share from one 
> top level data directory (pool) and move it to another top level data 
> directory (pool) on another file system? If each of the home directories were 
> equivalent in the amount of space used, then I could move 50 of the backed up 
> shares to the other volume and then spread the original 16TB across two 16TB 
> volumes (leaving 8TB on both volumes).
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