Hi, John Moorhouse wrote on 09.04.2007 at 20:16:37 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors]: > I've also got problems with the link error when I change the topDir from > the default install location (var/lib/backuppc) to a mount on a raid > array, ie moving all the subdirectories within topDir to the new location. > > I've tried mounting the raid on a partition at root level > '/backup-files', and most recently I created a directory within > var/lib/backuppc called RAID and mounted it on that, each time backuppc > works, in that it backups up and saves the back up files where you would > expect them, i.e. '/backup-files/pc' and var/lib/backuppc/raid/pc but it > seems to be unable to to add anything into the relevant cpool directory
why not mount your RAID partition on /var/lib/backuppc and avoid changing TOPDIR in the first place? John Moorhouse wrote on 10.04.2007 at 09:50:34 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors]: > Eric Snyder wrote: > > > > 2) I created individual links for each directory (pc, cpool and pool) > > that point to actual directories on hdb and then tried the backup. The > > backup run fine and links were created on the target drive (hdb) > > inside dev/backupdisk/backups/cpool. > > > How do you do this 'create individual links' (i'm new to linux as it > sound like yoiu have solved the same problem as I'm having. Try 'man ln'. You want the '-s' option (soft link), presuming you really still want the links. Basically, it's 'ln -s /where/the/link/should/point/to /name/of/the/link'. You can use relative paths for both and you can create more than one link with one command if you know what you're doing. As a side note, I'd have expected problems with individual links rather than changing $Conf{TopDir} in the main configuration file (this is what you did first? ;-). I'd guess you've got something wrong, though I can't figure out what that would be (asside from BackupPC_link using an incorrect value of $Conf{TopDir} because you tried something else). Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/