On Feb 27, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. >
It appears that I'm still getting link errors even though I've corrected permissions for the pool directories. What else should I be checking? 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/
