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Re: [BackupPC-users] merge host from one pool into another pool
2008-11-17 23:47:26
I have done this on a small setup a while ago. I just pulled over the pc directory from one into the other and adjusted my config files for the imported backups.. aditionally I made an error when copying and brought over numeric user ids for the files and had to chown them. Im not sure if the nightly run will handle the typical deduplication or not. I never checked.
so..yet you can merge them but I am not sure if you get deduplication in the next nightly run...
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Msquared <1.sub.backuppc AT msquared.id DOT au> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:55:36AM +0100, Michael Kuss wrote:
> historically, I run backuppc on two servers. One runs version 2.1.2 on
> Scientific Linux 4.7, the other 3.x (can't check right now) on Fedora
> Core 7. Both backup different sets of hosts. Some hosts are being
> backed up by both of them (primarily laptops and one of the servers).
> Now, I would like to add the FC7 server (called benz) to the pool of the
> SL4 server too, including the history of backups.
>
> How would I achieve this?
I'm not sure that it would work, but I would use rsync to copy pc/benz
from one server to the other, then copy the config files for benz then add
the benz host to the other server. (With rsync, make sure you turn on all
the relevant options for link handling: this should preserve the tree of
links under pc/benz, but will make the transfer take longer.)
I expect that that BackupPC would take care of everything for you during
one of its maintenance tasks, but I'm not sure this is actually the case.
If this is not the case, then you can just remove everything you copied
across and try something else.
I know this is not a great deal of help, but sometimes it pays to just go
ahead and give it a shot, especially since the amount of effort required
to try it is not that high...
If this works, let us know!
Regards, Msquared...
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