Les Mikesell wrote at about 17:57:41 -0500 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009: > David Williams wrote: > > I did finally get around to hacking my drive and enabling NFS. I can now > > mount it as NFS and backuppc is now working again :) > > > > However, there might still be something wrong with my setup. > > > > I am running Mandriva 2009.0 and installed backuppc from the Mandriva > > respostiory. > > > > I updated the config.pl file and one of the things that I did change was > > the > > TopDir parameter, which I set to /backups > > > > My backups are currently going to /backups/pc/xxxx, where xxxx is the host > > that I am backing up. > > > > I was re-reading the email below about the pool files and I didn't see > > anything under /backups/cpool or /backups/pool. > > > > On further investigation I do see files/directories under > > /var/lib/backuppc/cpool. By changing the TopDir parameter in the config.pl > > file have I messed anything up ? Backups seem to be working (very slowly), > > but they are working. I am assuming that this is ok but not sure. > > > > Under /var/lib/backuppc/cpool are directories like 0/ 1/ 2/ 3/, etc but > > when > > I drill down into some of these directories I don't see any files. > > > > Would appreciate some help. > > If you installed from scratch from the sourceforge tarball you would be > able to change the storage location, but the location is embedded in the > code during the install process. If you are using a version packaged > for a distribution, this step has already been done and you can't change > it with just the TopDir setting. You really need to mount the disk at > /var/lib/backuppc (copy everything that needs to be there first). You'll > probably also need to mount the disk async to get any performance.
At the level of /var/lib/backuppc you can use a soft link. i.e., you can mount the disk anywhere and then just create a soft link from there to /var/lib/backuppc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
