Re: Re: restarting with a new pool

 > > is there a quick recipe for re-starting from a new pool?  somehow
 > > my backuppc filesystem got corrupted -- so i'd like to, essentially,
 > > do the following:
 > 
 > My suggestion would be to copy the few configuration files to somewhere
 > safe, remove the *whole* thing, install afresh, then copy the
 > configuration files back.
 > 
 > That would be easier and less error-prone than trying to prune out
 > things that you don't want.


okay.  that makes sense.

as a followup to that -- should i be going to 2.1.0p1?  i'm running
2.0.2 now.  i was planning on upgrading at some point, when i was sure
everyone else :-) thought the new code was stable.  have we reached
that point?

 > > (secondary question: the previous filesystem for the pool was ext3.
 ...
 > I would strongly recommend that you stick with ext3.  The other three
 > options are ext2, xfs and reiserfs, pretty much, which have their
 > drawbacks compared to ext3.

thanks for sharing your experiences.  i'll stick with ext3.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 70.0 degrees)


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