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Re: [BackupPC-users] Is it possible to split a large pool?

2015-11-10 13:02:23
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Is it possible to split a large pool?
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome AT real-time DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:59:17 -0500
On 11/10 10:21 , Russell Poyner wrote:
> I have a single BackupPC 3.3 backing up 110 machines. We are in the 
> process of getting a second server and I'm wondering if it's possible to 
> split the pool to move machines to the new server without losing their 
> backup history.

Not really. By far the easiest thing to do is to start backing up the
machines to the new server, and leave their history on the old server until
such time that you deem you don't need it anymore, at which point you delete
it off the old server.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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