Hi there, I’ve been looking into moving my server to a new machine and taking advantage of Btrfs for deduplication.
I’ve noticed a lot of duplicate data on my current EXT4 setup, and I think Btrfs could really help with that.
I’m planning to use Urbackup on the new server.
My question is about the migration process. Can I simply install the system on the new server, copy the backup and var/urbackup directories using rsync, and then install Urbackup?
Or do I need to follow a different procedure because I’m changing the file system?
to save yourself a headache just restart the backups on the new server…
install urbackup server (same version on new server)
stop urbackup
copy/replace the var/urbackup directories to new server
urbackupsrv remove-unknown
… and probably urbackupsrv defrag-database to reduce space
start uprbackup server
this will keep your clients and setup information but restart the backups