On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The ubuntu package should create a backuppc user and that should be
> the owner of everything under TOPDIR. I think you need to diagnose
> why the link fails but trying the same operation from the shell (su -s
> /bin/bash backuppc if it doesn't have a shell configure for login).
>
What is the "same operation"? I'm not up on how to track down the
postinstall script in the install package, is it just doing an
"/etc/init.d/backuppc start"?
> I think you are making things too complicate with a bunch of bind
> mounts. Why not just mount the partition as /var/lib/backuppc and if
> you want it to be self-contained, symlink other stuff there?
>
The references I've seen, both here in the list and elsewhere - hang on a
sec - yes right in the BPC docs
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory#Bind-mounting_TopDir
treat them as functionally equivalent.
Personally I don't see how bind mounts are any more complex than symlinks;
my impression is that as developers are able to count on modern systems'
handling bind mounts, symlinks are getting deprecated. They also seem less
vulnerable somehow, I've heard of some software/systems being unable to
traverse them - in fact I've read they're pretty much transparent right down
to the kernel level.
If you're saying symlinks are to be preferred over bind mounts then I'd be
happy to switch, but would like to know why, and perhaps the FAQ ref'd above
should include those points. . .
In the meantime, my reinstall without ANY filesystem shenanigans didn't pass
the hardlinks test on startup. Any ideas as to what could be the cause of
that?
Maybe because backuppc user already exists? Should I be logged in as her
when re-installing?
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