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New directory-structure -- old backup increments

Asked by scuba

Hi BiT Team,

I've recently upgraded my Server/Workstation. I Have BiT increments of a certain directory /mnt/foo since 2010. The directory /mnt/foo was included in the original Backup. My new Server/Workstation has a huge hdd. So there is no need to mount a second drive. The new location of "foo" is /home/foo.

How can I keep the increments from /mnt/foo in the new path /home/foo available? I have included /home/foo in the config template. /mnt/foo has not been excluded yet. I fear if I exclude /mnt/foo I will lose increments? Is there an easy method to change the path /mnt/foo to /home/foo without losing increments?

Any suggestions are more than welcome :-)

Regards

SCUBA

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

Hi,

If I get it right: you used to backup "/mnt/foo" and now foo is moved to "/home/foo". Now you want to backup "/home/foo" relative to old snapshots that used "/mnt/foo".

I'm afraid there is no easy solution.

1. The simplest solution: can you continue to mount your new drive as /mnt/foo as it was before ? (and make a sym-link to /home/foo)

2. The slow solution: you can go in each snapshot (or at least the latest) and rename /mnt/foo to /home/foo and modify each "fileinfo.bz2" file to use /home/foo instead of /mnt/foo. It is possible but you have to be carreful.

Regards,
Dan

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scuba (scubuntu) said : 		#2

Hi Dan,

yes, that's what I meant. Well that's kind of sad that there's no easy way to solve my problem. I've decided to partition my new monster-drive and mount the partition to /mnt/foo again as I had done with the second drive. That way I'll keep my increments until there is a better solution.

Thanks for you help. Maybe you can take my question up into your wish list...?

Regards

SCUBA