Joe Krahn wrote:
> It seems to be a known problem that moving the backup location by
> setting $Conf{TopDir} does not work, because it is used to define the
> location of config.pl when $useFHS is off. But, changing $TopDir breaks
> BackupPC_link even when $useFHS is on. It is confusing that the config
> value is used some places, but the default value is used in others.
>
> If certain values have to be hard-coded, then you shouldn't also allow
> those as configuration options. There is also no reason to force the
> backup pool to be in the same location as the config file, because it
> will be quite common to have a separate filesystem for backup data, so
> the backup locations should definitely not be one of the hard-coded items.
>
> Since BackupPC is designed to run with a backuppc account, you could
> require that the backuppc home directory be the config.pl location, and
> then you wouldn't need any hard-coded paths.
>
> Joe Krahn
>
(More info)
Here is where the pool and cpool paths are set in Lib.pm:
#
# Clean up %ENV and setup other variables.
#
delete @ENV{qw(IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)};
$bpc->{PoolDir} = "$bpc->{TopDir}/pool";
$bpc->{CPoolDir} = "$bpc->{TopDir}/cpool";
if ( defined(my $error = $bpc->ConfigRead()) ) {
print(STDERR $error, "\n");
return;
}
#
# Update the paths based on the config file
#
foreach my $dir ( qw(TopDir ConfDir InstallDir LogDir) ) {
next if ( $bpc->{Conf}{$dir} eq "" );
$paths->{$dir} = $bpc->{$dir} = $bpc->{Conf}{$dir};
}
$bpc->{storage}->setPaths($paths);
Wouldn't the $TopDir value work correctly for PoolDir and CPoolDir if
they were set after reading the config?
Joe
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