Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing-up BackupPC ?

[Timothy M. <gay...@ei...>]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>> I have a large (1TB) USB external drive
>> I would like to use to backup my BackupPC data,
>> in case drive sdb actually packs up.
>>
>> I've looked quickly at the BackupPC documentation,
>> in particular the section on archiving,
>> but I am not entirely clear of the procedure,
>> and would be very grateful for precise instructions.

> If you don't expect to need to restore from your old copies, the easiest
> thing would be to just add a new internal drive mounted wherever the old
> partition was and start over with new backups, keeping the old drive
> around just in case until you have sufficient new history on the new
> drive.  It may take a very long time to copy the old data and there's
> some chance it would fail during the copy anyway.  If there is anything
> particularly valuable in the old backups that doesn't still exist on the
> source directories, you could do a browser download, saving to the
> external drive.

Thanks for your response.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "a browser download".

Actually one of the directories I am backing up with BackupPC
is on the same possibly bad disk.
I guess it is better to back up the source first to another drive,
as I think you are suggesting.

I have ordered a new internal disk, which should arrive in a couple of days,
and I'll follow your suggestion.
I currently have a partition mounted as /BackupPC .
Can I just mount a partition on the new drive as /BackupPC instead?
Doesn't BackupPC expect to find the old backups in place?




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