On 6/7/11 6:43 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> 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 don't understand a differences in size when you say they are linked.

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

Did you copy in a way that preserves the hard links within the archive?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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