oh, also...change your TopDIR back to what it was before "/var/lib/backuppc"
and then change the mount point of the disk
/dev/md0 /var/lib/backuppc ext3 defaults 0 0
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:54 PM, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> chown -R backuppc:backuppc /media/raid
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Kenneth L. Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> Hello Leandro,
>>
>> I am a newbie to Linux and also to BackupPC and have taken much help from
>> the generous people who support both. I found myself in your position
>> rather recently and had to work through finding a solution. While some of
>> the advice may have been good, I may have just lacked the expertise to
>> implement it! Anyway, let me take a stab at this and I'll also advise you
>> to talk to several people to ensure you have a good solution and a clear
>> path to success.
>>
>> In the Fedora Forum, I was advised to create a soft link at {TopDir}
>> pointing to my desired target location. I could not get this to work.
>> The
>> problem that you are facing is that BackupPC requires many inodes and
>> extensive use of hard links to manage the pool. Hard links won't work
>> across certain boundaries such as between the Linux system and external
>> shares. (This is a generalization is not an accurate presentation since
>> my
>> Linux vocabulary is still working at the baby-talk level.)
>>
>> What I did was create an LVM storage system. I wanted to dedicate a 500
>> GB
>> drive to the BackupPC storage. I set this up as LVM and then mounted it
>> at
>> {TopDir}. This is working flawlessly for me. Additionally, this
>> structure
>> will allow me to add additional drives to expand the storage as needed.
>> Being so ignorant of Linux, I had to depend on good documentation created
>> by
>> others. I found all that I needed in the following:
>>
>> http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm
>>
>> I hope this will at least give you two options and that one of them will
>> work for you. -- ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Leandro Tracchia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:12 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [BackupPC-users] $Conf{TopDir} on raid level 1
>>
>> i created a raid level 1 array from two hard drives (using mdadm). so
>> the array is on /dev/md0. this array is mounted onto a third hard
>> drive where backuppc is running. /etc/fstab:
>>
>> /dev/md0 /media/raid ext3 defaults 1 2
>>
>> TopDir is like this:
>>
>> $Conf{TopDir} = '/media/raid';
>>
>>
>> when i try to start backuppc i get this:
>>
>> "Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /media/raid/pc and
>> /media/raid/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this
>> file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't
>> exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of
>> inodes or full. Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these
>> possibilities. Quitting... "
>>
>> not sure what to do from here :(
>>
>> does anyone know what i can do??
>>
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