By the way, I think that the external hard drive issue might be a
distraction.  I get exactly the same errors when I don't connect the
external hard drive and I instead try to backup to the /var/lib/backuppc
directory on the internal disk.

Hope this helps,
Loren


On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Loren Serfass
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Les,
>     Hmm.  Most recently, I first mounted it at /var/lib/backuppc and then
> did a fresh install.  That way it automatically put on the cpool, log, pc,
> etcetera directories as it installed from synaptic.  I think that's OK, as
> some pages recommended it and it seemed simpler than the symlink option.
> Should mounting it this way work?
>
> Thanks,
> Loren
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Loren Serfass wrote:
>> > Thanks Allen,
>> >     I forgot to mention that.  It's a usb hard drive formatted to ext3,
>> > like my internal drive.
>>
>> Is it mounted or symlinked as /var/lib/backuppc as the packaged installs
>> require?
>>
>> --
>>   Les Mikesell
>>    [email protected]
>>
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