Just getting the backuppc config files is all I would be interested in,
which sounds doable.
After that I'd use backuppc to restore everything else.
Thanks all!
Erik
On 01/28/2011 12:21 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote at about 11:49:21 -0500 on Thursday, January 27, 2011:
> > On 1/27/2011 8:05 AM, Erik Shreve wrote:
> > > I've been reading the archives and documentation but haven't been able
> > > to find a clear answer...
> > >
> > > I have backuppc backing up the machine it runs on to a NAS. Thus
> > > everything under __TOPDIR__ is on the NAS. Meanwhile the backuppc
> > > binaries and configuration are on the server.
> > >
> > > If I were to loose the server, how hard would it be to restore data from
> > > the NAS? Obviously I'd have to rebuild a server and install BackupPC
> > > again. If I had BackupPC backing up its config directory, would it be
> > > easy to extract those files from the cpool?
> >
> > Getting the files out of the pc directory in your data store is easy
> > since it has the same structure as the original directory (aside from
> > the obvious addition of the 'f' to the filenames). Just use the
> > BackupPC_zcat program to uncompress the config files.
>
> Not sure if this is what you are implying... but zcat'ing the
> f-mangled pc dir files directly is *not* generally a good idea unless
> you just want the straight *contents* of a file or two and know what
> you are doing.
> Because:
> - The fmangling gets in the way (and it's not just a prepended 'f'
> but also non-ascii alphanumeric chars get encoded)
> - You lose the file ownership, perms, timestamps, etc
> - It doesn't deal properly with links (soft or hard) and special
> files.
>
>
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