Kimball Larsen wrote:
>
>>> 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?
>
They should be linked during/after each backup run. You won't see much
space benefit from the pooling until your old archives where the link
attempt failed are expired, though.
--
Les Mikesell
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