---- [email protected] wrote: > Steve wrote at about 01:13:15 +0000 on Tuesday, April 30, 2013: > > Or I should say I >could< get to the server before I tried to configure > the BackupPC server to point at my old backup. > > The problem is that my backups are on an ext3 filesystem whereas my new > CentOS 6.4 is partitioned with ext4. > > > > I can use tune3fs to convert ext3 to ext4 but I'm a little nervous about > doing it. If it goes wrong, there go my backups. > > On the other hand the backups are no use if I can't get to them. > > > > Anyone done this before? The h/w the backups are on is an external 1T USB > MyBook. > > I'm confused... if your backups are on an ext3 filesystem then just > mount them ext3.... > CentOS (like any *nix) can work with multiple filesystem types > simultaneously - ext2/3/4, ntfs, reiserfs, vfat, solaris, hfs, > etc. > > In fact, 'mount' is usually able to figure out the filesystem type > automatically... worst case, if it can't specify "-t ext3" on the > command line or give the equivalent parameter in your fstab. > > Saying "my new CentOS 6.4 is partitioned with ext4" really makes > no sense -- disks are partitioned, filesystems sit on individual > partitions and are formatted, the actual distro (CentOS 6.4) is not > partitioned nor does it have a fixed associated filesystem... > > Perhaps, though I am not understanding your issue...
Or perhaps I'm misinterpreting the error message. The external drive is mounted ext3. I created a symbolic link from /var/lib/BackupPC to /media/<my external HD uuid> When I try to restart the backuppc service I get this error: Starting BackupPC: 2013-04-29 20:37:21 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /var/lib/BackupPC//pc and /var/lib/BackupPC//cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of inodes or full. Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these possibilities. Quitting.. I'd run out of time and decided it must be a filesystem problem and I would look at it more tomorrow. However... # ls -l /var/lib/BackupPC drwxr-x---. 18 495 root 4096 Mar 18 06:00 cpool -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 145 Mar 19 22:00 extlinux.conf -r--r--r--. 1 root root 32768 Mar 19 22:00 ldlinux.sys drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Jul 16 2008 lost+found -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 60928 Mar 19 22:00 menu.c32 drwxr-x---. 5 495 root 4096 Mar 17 19:31 pc drwxr-x---. 2 495 root 4096 Jul 26 2008 pool -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 145 Mar 19 22:00 syslinux.cfg drwxr-x---. 2 495 root 4096 Mar 18 06:00 trash -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnfilel.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnpathl.txt Hmmm... there is no user 495. Perhaps that was the backuppc user on my old system. Do cpool, pc etc have to be owned by backuppc? Steve. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ 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/
