On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Alain Péan
<alain.p...@lpp.polytechnique.fr> wrote:
> Hi Jiahwei,
>
> As you can see, you have a problem with a hardlink. The default location
> for BachpPC data pool is /var/lib/BackupPC. I guess you tried to change
> this location to another one, by setting a hard link. I tried this
> myself, and it failed. Whad I did, is to mount an external storage under
> /backup, copied the content of /var/lib/BackupPC inside (with the same
> owner, backuppc, and rights), and change the configuration in
> /etc/BackupPC/config.pl :
>
> #$Conf{TopDir} = '/var/lib/BackupPC/';
> $Conf{TopDir} = '/backup';
Generally you're still better off leaving it at /var/lib/BackupPC and
either mounting your storage directly to that path or using a symlink
or bind mount to that location. This is especially true if you run
with SELinux enabled.
Richard
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