[Box Backup] Server drive failed

[Ben Summers]

On 5 Jan 2007, at 20:30, Diego Ongaro wrote:

> Our boxbackup server's large drive has failed. We still have /etc  
> and /
> on a different (smaller) drive that didn't fail, but we lost the  
> actual
> server data. How can we bring our backups back up?

Per's response is of course correct if you have lost your server,  
which runs bbstored. It's just like you lost your tapes if you had  
been using tape backup.

But if you mean a server running the Box Backup client, bbackupd, you  
want to read this:

   http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/trac/wiki/VerifyAndRestoreBackups

Ben