[Box Backup] Store different accounts on different disks?

Tobias Balle-Petersen boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Tue Feb 20 14:19:14 GMT 2007


Hello Ben.

Would your suggestion allow me to make the changes on the store without having to change the setup
on my clients? Would I need to upload the old data again?

Thanks,
Tobias




Ben Summers wrote:
> 
> On 20 Feb 2007, at 14:08, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:
> 
>> Hello...
>>
>> I am running a Boxbackup 0.10 server on Mac OS X. I have tree accounts
>> on the machine. The backups
>> are stored in the directories /Volumes/raidA/box/backup/0000000[a|b|c].
>>
>> I am running out of space on my main raid, but will soon be adding a
>> new raid (raidB). Will I be
>> able to move an account, say account "c", to the new drive by making a
>> link from
>> /Volumes/raidA/box/backup/0000000c to a directory on my new raidB?
>>
>> If possible, can I do this while the server is running?
> 
> Add a set on the new disc to /etc/box/raidfile.conf
> 
> Send the server a -HUP signal.
> 
> Create accounts on the new set.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
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