Is there a way i can do that ? i got like >500 linux servers backuped via backuppc.
Could the api or some agent option allow me to do something like :
Change the date at which the backup was done.
Not re-configure the agent 500 times, but specify the agent name as parameter
backuppc use something simple like :
One folder per client,
Plus a file at the toplevel server that contains the backups metadata.
So i could totaly parse this file; get client name, backup date, backup path , full/inc status / backup data path
Then feed that to some application …
What if you just backed up all the data then back up the servers?
The deduplication would mean that hardly anything would need to be transferred from the servers, as it’s already there…
Of course, this would only work if your backuppc data was actually files in folders and not in some archive format.
backuppc is files in folders, so this part isnt very difficult.
For stuff like expiring old backups you need to know when the backup was made and if it was a full.
If migration isnt possible, we ll just keep the old servers up for some time.
