Kimball Larsen schrieb: > 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?
If you have compression enabled in your configuration, you won't see any items in "pool" directory, but in "cpool" one (compressed pool). I would also restart backuppc after correcting the permissions. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
