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Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines

2010-12-16 03:46:14
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Migrating backup machines
From: "d.davolio AT mastertraining DOT it" <d.davolio AT mastertraining DOT it>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:44:35 +0100
Thanks guys for the tips.
I'm trying and I'll let you know when (and if) I'll manage to make it 
works! ;)


On 12/15/2010 07:30 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>



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