From: Peter P. <pet...@gm...> - 2009-11-13 13:48:40
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Hi, On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Tino Schwarze <bac...@ti...> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:24:46PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to access backups created with another BackupPC installation. >> >> I thought it would just require: >> >> 1. copying the TopDir with rsync -avzH >> 2. changing the ownership of the TopDir to correct user/group >> 3. adding the hostnames in the hosts config file. >> >> I get the hosts to appear in web interface, but when accessing them it >> tells me "This PC has never been backed up!!" and I cannot browse the >> backups. >> >> What am I missing here? > > Did you copy the whole pc/ directories? Including the pc/xyz/backups > files? Yes I did. I actually solved my problem, it was the same as with the htpasswd file: SElinux denial. I still haven't used to looking at the audit.log for errors... > Note that copying a whole pool (while preserving hardlinks) is still > tough and will only work up to a certain pool size/file count (apart > from copying a whole file system image). Do you have any more info on this (about the limits)? Why is it so, can't rsync handle big amounts of data including hardlinks? Regards, Peter |