I can confirm this works now. I tested it last night between two volumes.

The issue was the path in the config file. My mistake was updating the
path to the new location then running the script. I reverted to the
original path, ran the script to move the files then put the new path
back. It worked fine.

Thx

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Trey Dockendorf <treydock AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Trey Dockendorf <treydock AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:21 PM, ad^2 <adsquaired AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now that I have the system updated with the latest version I decided
>>> to test the script on the same system. It still does not work and
>>> produces the same error.
>>>
>>> Argument "topdir/pc" must be an absolute path starting with "topdir"
>>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>>> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if this script does work?
>>>
>>> Thx
>>>
>>> ad^2
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:06 PM, ad^2 <adeezainya AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > From what I have read even though tar supports a hardlink option it
>>> > will not do the trick with BackupPC. Have you use tar to copy the
>>> > __TOPDIR__/pc directory?
>>> >
>>> > Anyway, I went with the rebuild and let BackupPC recreate the pool
>>> > option. I copied the configuration files to retain all the previous
>>> > system's settings. It worked and it was fast to setup.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
>>> > <chrome AT real-time DOT com> wrote:
>>> >> On 05/22 11:46 , ad^2 wrote:
>>> >>> I have a BackupPC server running an older unsupported version of
>>> >>> Fedora. I have new server with more disk space and an up to date
>>> >>> operating system. The goal is to migrate all the information over to
>>> >>> the new server
>>> >>>
>>> >>> DD is not an option because the device on the existing BackupPC
>>> >>> server
>>> >>> contains more than just BackupPC data. It would take to long and I
>>> >>> can't unmount the disk without effecting users.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I tried running BackupPC_tarPCCopy but the "Argument
>>> >>> /var/lib/BackupPC/pc must be an absolute path starting with
>>> >>> /var/lib/BackupPC/" error is displayed.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Is my only option to start creating the new pool from scratch? Or, is
>>> >>> there another way to copy the hardlinks created by BackupPC to the
>>> >>> new
>>> >>> server?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I've used tar to capture all of /var/lib/backuppc (or whatever the
>>> >> path is
>>> >> on your box) and pipe it to netcat to send it across the wire. This
>>> >> can take
>>> >> a few days tho, during which your backup system is offline. If you
>>> >> need to
>>> >> preserve historic data going back months or years tho, it may be the
>>> >> way to
>>> >> go.
>>> >>
>>> >> Otherwise, just building a new backup server, moving the config over
>>> >> to it,
>>> >> and keeping the old one around until the data can be considered
>>> >> 'expired' is
>>> >> the best option.
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Carl Soderstrom
>>> >> Systems Administrator
>>> >> Real-Time Enterprises
>>> >> www.real-time.com
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>>> >
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>>> > ad^2
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>>
>>
>> I can confirm that the BackupPC_tarPCCopy does work as I recently moved
>> about 1TB (~3TB before pooling / compression) of backups from one side of my
>> campus to another from CentOS 5.6 x86 to CentOS 6.2 x86_64.  Here's the
>> exact command I used...
>>
>> On the new server I ran these commands:
>> mount /dev/vg_backups/lv_backups0 /backups-new
>> mount -t nfs -o nolock <old server IP>:/backups /backups
>> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy /backups/pc | tar xvPf -
>>
>> I mounted to the new system using old sytem's path so that the command
>> would work.  That command then ran for ~3 days and my entire pool was then
>> on the new storage system.  I confirmed recently that everything copied
>> correctly as I had to restore an entire system from backup about a week
>> later.
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>> - Trey
>>
>
>
> Sorry forgot to add a key part of how it knew to use the /backup-new path :P
>
> mkdir /backups
> mkdir /backups-new
> mount /dev/vg_backups/lv_backups0 /backups-new
> mount -t nfs -o nolock <old server IP>:/backups /backups
> cd /backups-new/pc
> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarPCCopy /backups/pc | tar xvPf -
>
> The tarPCCopy will copy the existing pool, in my case '/backups/pc' to the
> current directory
>
> Then after transfer
> umount /backups /backups-new
> mount /dev/vg_backups/lv_backups0 /backups
>
> - Trey
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