Hello
After posting here and resolving my permission issue I am now faced
with more problems.....
The problem is after the backup is run, BackupPC produces thousands
of 'Link Errors' and basically 'locks' the NAS drive. The forums
mentioned that your storage device must be able to create
Hardlinks. Im not sure mine can anymore. Im running a LaCie 1 TB
Ethernet drive.
Also, searched these forums and read that people have mounted the
their storage drive under /var/lib/backuppc as you 'cannot really'
redirect the storage if you install via package, as i have done
(Ubuntu 7). This did not work either has i receive permission
errors trying to write to the NAS drive.
I used this string to mount the drive:
smbmount //192.168.10.70/ /var/lib/backuppc -o
username=backuppc,password=backuppc,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc.
Ive substituted smbmount for 'mount -t cifs' as well.
Another solution was to create a symlink between /var/lib/backuppc
and the storage device. All this did was create a broken symlink
on the NAS drive which cannot be removed. A symlink will work fine
if created in my home directory. Is it true that Symlinks cannot be
created across different filesystems? In this case ext3 and xfs
This situation is becoming very frustrating as its taken so long
trying to resolve this issue. Every close door opens another one.
Im about to go out and spend $700CDN on a new NAS drive that will
support NFS. But need to know if this will resolve the issue or
create the same problems.
Is there a NAS hard drive which runs the ext3 file system? Surely
this would work.
What about reinstalling the OS using a different file system?
Would it make a difference if I reinstalled BackupPC using source
instead. Not the best option but you have the opportunity to
redirect the TOPDIR allowing the cpool/pool dirs to follow.
Thanks
ashley paul
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