Dagg, The error should be self-explanatory - either /mnt/backup is a file system that doesn't support hardlinks, or /mnt/backup/pc and /mnt/backup/cpool are two different file systems (and therefore hardlinks between them fail). Are they two different file systems?
Craig On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:33 AM daggs <da...@gmx.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I had a backuppc server running on debian 1o stable, the backups are on an > external hdd. > I've migrated the machine to alpine linux, the backuppc version of both is > 3.2.2. > I've copied over all the content of /etc/backuppc to the new os and when I > start it up, I get this error: > 2020-08-12 19:09:48 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in > /mnt/backup/pc and /mnt/backup/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... > both /mnt/backup/pc and /mnt/backup/cpool exists and they are folders. > > how can I go about fixing this without loosing my backups? > > Thanks, > > Dagg > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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