Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool Restore Problems

[<jo...@br...>]

Excellent, the fact that both PC and CPOOL had to reside on the same
filesystem is what I was missing.  My old backup pool has been restored
and I'm back up and running.

Thank you!
Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: "Les Mikesell" <le...@fu...>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 3:49 pm
To: jo...@br...
Cc: bac...@li...
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool Restore Problems

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:20, jo...@br... wrote:
> Ok, I've fixed the Apache side so the CGI stuff is working fine now,
> however I'm still unable to move the old backup cpool onto the new syst=
em.
> I've heard from people who say to leave it where it is and pull data fr=
om
> the old machine if we need it, unfortunately this isn't an option.  The
> old machine had severe hardware problems and I had to move the pool off=
 to
> a drive for backup purposes.  Now that we havde a new backup server in
> action I would like to restore the old pool and access some of the file=
s
> from it, however this is turning out to be more difficult than I expect=
ed.
>  For some reason copying the old pool into the new cpool location using=
 a
> cp -a command isn't working.  The files transfer over, but BackupPC isn=
't
> seeing them, and appears to actually be creating a new, blank cpool
> structure inside what I've moved over.  If anyone could help I'd really
> appreciate it!

I started to reply to your last email but don't think it made it out.
In your last message it looked like you had mounted cpool as a
separate file system.  The cpool directory and the pc directory
containing the backups must reside on the same filesystem and they
must be copied together so that the hard links can be reconstructed.
However, this will take a very long time to complete.  I'd pull the
old drive and find some other machine to mount it in if you need to
restore old files and just let the new system get started by itself.
But, you still have to get cpool on the same filesystem as pc first.

--=20
  Les Mikesell
   le...@fu...