On 12/15/2010 11:54 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0100, d.davolio AT mastertraining DOT it 
> wrote:
>> OK, I know that it's an old topic :)
>>
>> I checked the mailing list and wiki but still I can't find the right
>> "direction".
>>
>> I just need migrate to a new Backupc server. I don't need to move the
>> pool because my data are on a NAS. My old backuppc server is a Linux
>> Debian etch. The new one is a Debian lenny that mount exactly the same
>> storage as the former backup server and the backuppc comes from standard
>> repository.
>>
>> Seen that I don't want to loose my working pool and I cant duplicate it
>> (I don't have another NAS with 4TB free space), is it enough to copy the
>> configuration from one server to another? Which files?
>
> If the pool/, cpool/, and pc/ directories will be available, and
> mounted in the same place, on both machines, you just need to copy
> the /etc/backuppc directory.  I would try a couple of test restores
> to be sure, but that should be it.

And if the backuppc user's home directory isn't on the mount from the 
NAS you'll need to copy over the .ssh directory from there to keep the 
same identity.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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