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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