Wayne Wynn wrote: > I have BackupPC (BUPC) running on an Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) box. The > Filesystem is on a 37 GB SCSI RAID array and the BUPC data is on a 160 > GB external SATA drive. Later, that drive is to contain backups of a > couple of Windows machines, and then I want to make copies of it for > off-site storage. Not the best plan, perhaps, but _a_ plan. > > When the localhost is backed up, it appears successful except for a lot > of link errors. My searching so far seems to have led to the conclusion > that these errors are because the SATA drive and the Filesystem drive > use different file systems: ext3 and ext2. > > 1. Is that true? > I don't know if this is true, but supposedly ext2 can be converted to ext3 without losing or moving your data.
-Rob > 2. If so, will making the external SATA drive ext2 solve the problem? > > 3. What alternative solutions are there? (E.g., moving /var/lib/Backuppc > to the external drive? How?) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
