rsnapshot

Clemens Feige said:     (by the date of Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:20:01 +0100)

> On 28 Feb 2008 at 22:02, Christian Lorenz wrote:
> 
> > So, I am at the point where I have to replace the backup disk.
> > Of course I would like to copy all data from my current backup
> > disk onto the new one. But how to do that?
> 
> Has anybody tried the following approach?
> 
> 1. Create the new bigger partition on the new hard disk.
> 2. Move the filesystem with DD from the old partion to the new one.
> 3. With Resize2fs increase the size of the filesystem to fit the new 
> partition.

I did it several times. But I can't remember if I did it with
rsnapshot partition. Anyway, this must work. Just make sure that you
don't get a power failure during the process.

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Janek Kozicki                                                         |

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:23:59PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote:
> Clemens Feige said:     (by the date of Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:20:01 +0100)
> > On 28 Feb 2008 at 22:02, Christian Lorenz wrote:
> > > So, I am at the point where I have to replace the backup disk.
> > > Of course I would like to copy all data from my current backup
> > > disk onto the new one. But how to do that?
> > Has anybody tried the following approach?
> > 1. Create the new bigger partition on the new hard disk.
> > 2. Move the filesystem with DD from the old partion to the new one.
> > 3. With Resize2fs increase the size of the filesystem to fit the new 
> > partition.
> I did it several times. But I can't remember if I did it with
> rsnapshot partition. Anyway, this must work. Just make sure that you
> don't get a power failure during the process.

And that the source filesystem can't change while you're doing it!  So
either unmount it or at least re-mount it read-only.

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Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 15:48 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>> is there any way to test your configuration one target at a time other than 
>> running a hacked config??
> 
> I assume by "target" you mean "backup point".  If each backup point has
> a different destination in the configuration, you could use sync_first
> mode and the "rsnapshot sync <dest>" syntax to copy one backup point at
> a time to the "<snapshot_root>/.sync" directory.  See the very end of
> the "USAGE" section of the rsnapshot man page for details on this.

yes, I meant backup point.  I had read that part of the man page but discarded 
it because I was not using sync_first (should I be?).  I'm now using the -t 
option then cutting and pasting the rsync command.

thanks.

--- eric