On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:53:15AM +0100, Joseph Holland wrote:
> Ok, we have BackupPC version 3 installed on a few servers throughout our
> company.  Recently one of the servers went down.  We have been using
> rsync to backup the BackupPC'c data directory onto a USB drive.  I'm
> just wondering is it possible to restore this data over a fresh install
> of BaclupPC on another server?  I know that I will probably need the
> /etc/BackupPC and the /usr/local/share/BackupPC directory's to do this
> and have copied them over my fresh install of BackupPC, but it will not
> see the old backups.  It can see however all the hosts that I was
> backing up, but says that they have never been backed up by this new
> install (which is true).
> 
> Can anyone help me???

What directories did you exactly backup/rsync. You need to pc/
subdirectories which the "backups" file in them.

HTH,

Tino.

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