-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I don't use rsnapshot so I don't know if it can handle that or not but doing an mv will not disrupt the hard link structure itself.
On 01/04/2014 03:18 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2014-01-01 1:12 PM, Kevin Korb <k...@sanitarium.net> wrote: >> The easiest solution is to just do the same chmod on the most >> recent backup before running the next backup. > > Hi Kevin, > > This worked perfectly, and my shiny new server is now live, so > thanks very much. > > I have a related question though... > > I want to continue using my old backups, but the new server has a > new hostname too. > > So, similar to your suggestion above... > > Currently, the backups snapshot dir hierarchy is: > > /path/to/mnt/snapshots/hourly.#/hostname/ > > Can I mv the hostname to the new hostname before I start the > backups on the new server? Or will that break the older backups? > > Trying to get my head round what exactly happens, but its starting > to hurt... ;) > > Thanks, > > Charles > > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLIbUAACgkQVKC1jlbQAQcpxQCfeDosiSccjFtKUHkTngUMIDlO 36AAoN4w+zg0olhWMBC+mlwBags+Mu/a =zkAZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html