On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Kimball Larsen wrote: >> I've recently had to move my backuppc filesystem from one machine >> to another. My machines are all backing up just fine, I'm able to >> see all my old backups and restore files from them with no >> problem.. however, my pool size is reporting as 0MB. I checked >> the filesystem, and the size of the pool directory is in fact 0. >> Here is some info from the shell: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/plump/backuppc# du -sh pool >> 0 pool >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/plump/backuppc# ls -la >> total 4 >> drwxr-x--- 9 backuppc backuppc 240 2008-02-27 10:37 . >> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 104 2008-02-19 12:55 .. >> drwxr-x--- 12 root root 288 2008-02-19 11:27 cpool >> drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc root 128 2007-07-28 03:00 log >> drwx------ 2 backuppc root 48 2007-07-27 16:10 Mail >> drwxr-x--- 9 backuppc root 272 2008-02-26 15:26 pc >> drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc root 48 2007-05-20 15:14 pool >> -rw------- 1 backuppc root 812 2007-07-27 16:19 sent >> drwx------ 2 backuppc root 200 2008-02-20 07:37 .ssh >> drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 48 2008-02-27 10:50 trash >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/plump/backuppc# du -sh cpool >> 1.6G cpool >> I notice that the cpool directory is owned by root. Should it be >> owned by the backuppc user instead? > > Yes, it must be writable by the backuppc user. Your logs are > probably full of "unable to link" errors. >
Yeah, I've been getting stuff like this: 2008-02-27 11:51:16 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling MakeFileLink( .... I've changed the permissions... how soon should I expect to see some items wind up in the pool? Thanks! -- Kimball ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
