Les Mikesell wrote: > Joe Bayes wrote: >>> Are your logs full of "can't link" errors? >> Yes! There are lots of these: >> >> 2008-02-08 22:41:53 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling >> MakeFileLink(/home/BackupPC//pc/jane/12/fC$/fWINNT/fsystem32/fReinstallBackups/fPCI#VEN_10DE&DEV_0110&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_B2#4&102AC5BC&0&00F0/f0000/fDriverFiles/fnvwrshu.dll, >> 4a830141464d56a423b1adf6c3462850, 1) >>
> It normally creates them in the install step which the disto-packaged > versions don't repeat. If you need to move locations after a packaged > install it might work best to add symlinks to the original location > because the TopDir location becomes hardcoded in some places during the > install too. > >> For the record, I've got plenty of inodes, 40+G of free diskspace >> (with just one BackupPC full backup), and selinux is in permissive >> mode. >> >> Now that I've created pool in the proper place, I'm going to delete my >> backed-up data and try running two full backups again. I'll let you >> know how it turns out. > > It should only use the pool directory if you have disabled compression. > Otherwise the compressed/pooled links should be under cpool. > Well, I should have read this more carefully. Now I have to go rescind my bug report. I just created the missing directories and started BackupPC. Three Inc. backups have run as expected. It would be better if the default pool directories were setable with $topDir. Jim KR ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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/
