Well, in spite of the advice here (which I refer to as "Plan B", I
went ahead and tried transferring the pc directory. I *think* it
worked. Everything seems to have transferred to
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/<host> (I watched the transfers from a screen
session). But now I'm getting constant

Can't extract TopDir (/var/lib/backuppc) from
/var/lib/backuppc/cpool/2/4/2/242f729100b09de1378226d1de7066e8

Which, I am hoping is leftover hard links from files in various
deleted or aged backups, since it was transferring files with great
success for the first several hours, and the pc directories seem to be
populated. For as many years as I have been running backuppc, I would
be surprised if there wasn't some amount of cruft in the system, but
has anyone seen this before?

Thoughts?

Thanks,
--b

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Brad Alexander <storm16 AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> The problem with this approach is that the old backup server is still
>> running reiser3 (built before it got long in the tooth) and the new
>> one is running ext4...So I have to do it the hard way...
>
> The even easier approach is to disable backups on the old one but keep
> it around for restores for as long as you might want anything from it
> - and let the new one start from scratch.
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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