Tyler J. Wagner wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 01:34 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Is there any kind of BackupPC data on the machine itself
>> required for recovery of the archived material?
> 
> If your installation is Ubuntu, you need:
> 
> /etc/backuppc
> /var/lib/backuppc
> 
> It's common to have the second of these on its own datastore. If you're
> replicating that elsewhere, or recovering the disks, also make sure you
> regularly backup /etc/backuppc as well.
> 
> To recover the data, just install backuppc on the new server, and move
> those two directories to the same place.
> 
> Other distros have similar directory structures.

I should have said that I am running CentOS-5.6 on my BackupPC machine.
Also /var/lib/BackupPC is linked to another partition /BackupPC .
I can see that I should save /etc/backuppc ,
but is it really necessary to save /var/lib/BackupPC/ ?
This seems to be exactly what BackupPC has archived,
and is almost the same size as the archive file
(48GB archive file against 34GB /BackupPC in my case).

(I have actually copied everything to another computer,
but that was just so I can copy back to another disk.)


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland


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