[Box Backup] Adding files from usb hdds

[Timothy Wilson]

Thanks very much Chris! Will do :)

On 21/02/2008, Chris Wilson <chris@qwirx.com> wrote:
> Hi Timothy,
>
>
>  On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Timothy Wilson wrote:
>
>  > I now have a problem where I have a couple of remote machines that I
>  > want to move to boxbackup, but they have more data than I care to
>  > download. So rather than sucking down multiple gigabytes of data through
>  > my small internet pipe, I was thinking I could just backup the targets
>  > to a usb hdd, and then plug it into the server to sync off.
>  >
>  > But how to get the data into the right account? The approach I was
>  > thinking of taking, would be to install the backup client on the
>  > server, create a new account for the remote machine, but point the
>  > backup config file's targets to the mounted hdd instead of the remote
>  > machine. However, I think that will muck up the paths; ie it will be
>  > backing up /mnt/hdd/home rather than /home. Is there a way to rename
>  > the paths, or am I going about this the wrong way? Is there a better
>  > approach?
>
>
> It shouldn't mess up any paths because the root directory of the account
>  contains only location names, and locations don't know anything about the
>  real physical path that they're backed up from. So you can set the
>  location path to /mnt/hdd/home in bbackupd.conf on the server, back up on
>  the server, and then configure the client's bbackupd.conf to back up a
>  location with the same name and with path = /home, and it should just
>  work.
>
>
>  > I haven't seen anything about this on the wiki :(
>
>
> I've added an account for you on the wiki, I'll email the password
>  separately, please feel free to add it (perhaps under Common Tasks).
>
>
>  Cheers, Chris.
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