[Box Backup] Server drive failed

[Diego Ongaro]

To clarify, we did lose the data on the server that was our boxbackup server running bbstored. These backups are almost purely in case the boxbackup client (bbackupd) server goes down, so I'm not very concerned with old and deleted files. The drive was not on a hardware or software RAID, nor were we using boxbackup's software raid. We have already installed a new drive but have stopped the bbstored service.

Per said we need to "redo all the backups", and the intent of my initial question was to ask how to do that. For example, is there a command I need to run on the clients to tell them they need to do a full re-sync?

Thanks again,
Diego Ongaro
 

> On Jan 06, 2007 03:07 AM, Ben Summers <ben at fluffy.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 5 Jan 2007, at 20:30, Diego Ongaro wrote:
> > 
> > > Our boxbackup server's large drive has failed. We still have /etc  
> > > and /
> > > on a different (smaller) drive that didn't fail, but we lost the  
> > > actual
> > > server data. How can we bring our backups back up?
> > 
> > Per's response is of course correct if you have lost your server,  
> > which runs bbstored. It's just like you lost your tapes if you had  
> > been using tape backup.
> > 
> > But if you mean a server running the Box Backup client, bbackupd, you  
> > want to read this:
> > 
> >    http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/trac/wiki/VerifyAndRestoreBackups
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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