Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: When does BackupPC place files into the cpool directory? I have a small test installation running several weeks and files appear in cpool. I have a new production installation and over the last two weeks no files have ever appeared in cpool. Shouldn't it contain at least

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Further investigation shows that BackupPC is throwing errors during the link run.  Seeing many of these in the log file.  (It would be great if errors like this were emailed to the admin as part of the email notification from

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Les Mikesell wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Further investigation shows that BackupPC is throwing errors during the link run. Seeing many of these in the log file. (It would be great if errors like this were emailed to the admin as part of the email notification from BackupPC. I had not

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Steve
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Update: I just now found this page that I had not found previously even though I had looked for that type of page.  It doesn't seem to be very well linked into the upper documentation.  

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Steve lepe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Update: I just now found this page that I had not found previously even though I had looked for that type of page.  It doesn't seem to be very well linked into the

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:  I edited the configuration file and changed to $Conf{TopDir} = '/srv/backuppc'; which I thought would have been sufficient.  I did this before performing any backups so that all data would be stored in the new location.  

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory In Changing the name of the archive directory, the part about changing Lib.pm is critical for the pre-3.2 version and easily missed. It looks to me like this has

Re: [BackupPC-users] cpool always empty?

2011-11-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: I can certainly symlink from one location to the other.  Have done so. But wanting to have a better understanding I am going to poke into the problem a little more.  Because I would like to be able to recover the now existing