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
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