Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > I read the docs before setting it up and it was very obvious to me that > > planning was required. Then again, I've been doing this for a while. > > But it *was* in the documentation, if not in-your-face explicit. > > OK - can you show me where in the documentation it mentions the issue > with copying/moving BackupPC data and hence the recommendation for > using a separate fs just for BackupPC? I certainly wouldn't have > intuited this issue from a generic mention about careful "planning".
Well, I installed the beta. In said documentation, it clearly states: "BackupPC uses hardlinks to pool files common to different backups. Therefore BackupPC's data store (/vault/backstor) must point to a single file system that supports hardlinks. You cannot split this file system with multiple mount points or using symbolic links to point a sub-directory to a different file system (it is ok to use a single symbolic link at the top-level directory (/vault/backstor) to point the entire data store somewhere else). You can of course use any kind of RAID system or logical volume manager that combines the capacity of multiple disks into a single, larger, file system. Such approaches have the advantage that the file system can be expanded without having to copy it." So forget what I said about reading between the lines -- it was lines themselves :) -- Jim Leonard (trix...@oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
