Diederik De Deckere wrote:
> 
> Partitions won' have the same size.
> The system on my 3 year old Poweredge 2950 right now is Mandriva but  
> all other servers are CentOS.  So I want to use CentOS on that server  
> too.
> There are 6 disks in the server: 2x250-2x250-2x500, which is good for  
> 1TB of data.  All 250GB will be replaced by 500GB, raid5.  That way I  
> will have 2,5TB disk space.  I have an external 1TB USB drive where I  
> can move all important data to it, put a new system on it and restore  
> BackupPC.  No idea if BackupPC will recognize all previous backups.

It is generally a problem to copy a large backuppc archive with any 
method that has to reconstruct all the hardlinks.  The nicest way is to 
just build a new system and keep the old one around just in case until 
you have accumulated some history on the new one - or migrate the old 
disk set to something else.  If you have to copy 1TB, the best shot 
would be to use dd or partimage to duplicate it in image mode and if the 
destination partition is larger, resize the filesystem after the copy.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com




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