From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2010-04-20 22:22:55
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On 4/20/2010 5:04 PM, B. Alexander wrote: > If this is covered somewhere in the wiki or elsewhere, please point me > to it. > > With the problems I had with disk space on my backup server recently, I > am considering moving it to a machine that has SATA and a 1.5TB drive. > However, I would rather not start over again, I want to migrate the data > over to the other machine. I know I need to install backuppc, copy over > /etc/backuppc, but what is the best/fastest way to migrate the data > over? I was thinking > > rsync -avHe ssh machine1:/var/lib/backuppc/ machine2:/var/lib/backuppc/ > > But this seems like it would take a good while. Is there a faster/better > way? I had also thought about using netcat. > > What is the best practice for migrating backuppc data? This is discussed by about every new user on the mail list, but the short answer is that there is not a good way to do it. Rsync will work but will take a very long time. Another approach is to image-copy the partition, then expand the filesystem on the new disk. That would be faster but takes some obscure commands. Or there is this approach: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Move_backup_data which is somewhere in between. My recommendation is to build a new box and keep the old one around for emergencies until the new one accumulates as much history as you need. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |