Hello,

Am 30.07.2012 10:55, schrieb Tim Fletcher:
> On 30/07/12 09:43, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>> what's the prefered way to copy/move backups of one or more hosts 
>> from
>> one BackupPC instance to another?
>
> Normal solutions are:
>
> 1. Copy the raw disks from the old server to the new server (eg via
> dd and ssh or netcat)
>
> 2. Leave the old server running and setup a new one, allow the new
> one to populate and retire the old server when the archives are no
> longer needed

Unfortunately neither of both solutions work for me. I setup a new 
backup-server which replaces the old one. For all active hosts, I did it 
exactly as your second solution suggested. By now, the new backup-server 
backupped more than one full backup cycle of all active hosts.

But my problem is with inactive hosts. I have some old hosts which 
aren't available anymore, but for which I keep the last backups in the 
system. I'd like to migrate these backups to the new backup server as 
well, as the old one will be powered off in near future.

I cannot believe that it's impossible to move backups of hosts from one 
BackupPC instance to another. And actually I believe that 
BackupPC_tarPCCopy is the right tool to do so. But I don't get how to 
use it.

Regards,
  jonas


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