Re: Using rsync?

Les Mikesell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general
Message-ID <CAOAgVpx8H0eH6pUfxU2BHdrSVHV-pKQdY4AB-QpA=2FM3cyT1w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM John Cusick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What I would like to do is completely rebuild the server from scratch while backing up the entire BackupPC system (configs and backup directory) to a seperate USB hard drive. After rebuilding the server, I would like to just restore the /etc/BackupPC directory and the /var/lib/BackupPC directory after reinstalling the fedora BackupPC rpm package.
>

Just a thought that might not be possible or practical in your
situation, but maybe you could add a new boot/system drive for a fresh
install and mount the old drive somewhere else with symlinks to keep
the old /var/lib/BackupPC in the right place.

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  Les Mikesell
  [email protected]


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