Re: [Burp-users] Pre Stage Backups / Changing server host

[Graham K. <gr...@gr...>]

On Tue, December 23, 2014 2:22 pm, Alex Underwood wrote:
> Hi -
>
> A question about the client backup data -
>
> Is it correct to say that the client backup folders are server agnostic?
>
> I.E. I could drop a clients backup data directory onto a completely
> different burp server host - add the client config file on the server with
> the password and then repoint the client to the new host and continue with
> new incremental backups ?
>
> What I would like to achieve is to take my laptop running a copy of burp
> server to stage a backup locally - and then copy the staged backup using a
> faster connection to the real burp server.
>
>
> Many thanks
> Alex

Hello,

Yes, that will work. Don't forget to use the '-H' option with rsync when
you copy the backup folder (if you are using rsync), because you want to
preserve hard links.