sabujp wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
> Well this is possible using the instructions here:
>
> http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/move_backup_data+
>
> or in the manual under "Copying the pool". I've started this process (moving
> several TB) but my only question is regarding the commands from the manual
> here:
>
>
> su __BACKUPPCUSER__
> cd NEW_TOPDIR
> mkdir pc
> cd pc
> __INSTALLDIR__/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy __TOPDIR__/pc | tar xvPf -
>
>
> In the last command that runs BackupPC_tarPCCopy, does this perl command look
> at any of the configuration files on the local host or does it just get what
> it needs to re-generate the hard links straight from the old "pc" directory?
> I looked through the code and don't see that it does look at the local
> system's backuppc configuration files under /etc/BackupPC .
>
> What I'm doing is the following: I have two BackupPC servers host1 and host2.
> I'm copying the BackupPC directories from a SAN (san2) attached to host2 to
> the SAN attached to host1 (san1) . Both SANs are available to both hosts
> through a FC switch so I just umount it on host2 and re-mount it on host1. I
> then copy the cpool and pool directories to host1's san1. After this is
> finished I plan on running BackupPC_tarPCCopy on host1 (san1) against the pc
> directory on san2. Just wanted to make sure BackupPC_tarPCCopy wasn't going
> to look at host1:/etc/BackupPC/hosts and try something funny .
>
> Finally I'll reformat san2 from xfs to jfs (xfs is very unstable on apple g5
> xserves) and then do the same thing again to move the backuppc pool, cpool,
> and pc directories back to san2.
>
> Thanks,
> Sabuj Pattanayek
>
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