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] >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by >> >> Make an app they can't live without >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> > >
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