If you had space somewhere and it is only a few old machines...it
wouldnt be too much trouble to just restore them someplace and then
let the new server back up the restored directories...that way you get
to keep the pooling advantages.
A.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Jonas Meurer <jonas AT freesources DOT org>
wrote:
> 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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