Jim Leonard wrote at about 22:18:07 -0500 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009: > 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 :)
Oh really - please show me again which line talks about it being difficult to move/copy/backup the BackupPC database? Or did you forget to copy/paste that part? All that the above says is that it needs to be on a single filesystem which we all now. It says LVM/RAID "have the advantage that the file system can be expanded without having to copy it" but nothing about it warning that it is *hard* to copy which is the WHOLE POINT of this silly argument. The statement about LVM/RAID is generic and would be true about any program that needs all its files on a single filesystem. However, nowhere does it even *hint* that copying is hard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
