On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:24:46PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to access backups created with another BackupPC installation.
> 
> I thought it would just require:
> 
> 1. copying the TopDir with rsync -avzH
> 2. changing the ownership of the TopDir to correct user/group
> 3. adding the hostnames in the hosts config file.
> 
> I get the hosts to appear in web interface, but when accessing them it
> tells me "This PC has never been backed up!!" and I cannot browse the
> backups.
> 
> What am I missing here?

Did you copy the whole pc/ directories? Including the pc/xyz/backups
files?

Note that copying a whole pool (while preserving hardlinks) is still
tough and will only work up to a certain pool size/file count (apart
from copying a whole file system image).

Tino.

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