Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 aug 21, 07:47:13, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Thank you all for the help. Edwardo's mnemonic is a great help. So is the > rest of the information. As to the BackupPC configuration change. While it > is possible to redirect the backup in the config file, it is specifically > not recommended.

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-30 Thread Gary L. Roach
Thank you all for the help. Edwardo's mnemonic is a great help. So is the rest of the information. As to the BackupPC configuration change. While it is possible to redirect the backup in the config file, it is specifically not recommended. Not sure why. Thanks again. Gary R. On 8/29/21 5:34

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-30 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2021-08-30 at 10:18 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 29/08/2021 21:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The syntax is: ln -s TARGET LINKNAME > > > > I.e. you specify the existing thing first, and the name of the link that > > you want to create last. > > If you need a mnemonic, this is

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 29/08/2021 21:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: The syntax is: ln -s TARGET LINKNAME I.e. you specify the existing thing first, and the name of the link that you want to create last. If you need a mnemonic, this is just like cp. $ cp ORIGINAL NEW creates NEW as a copy from ORIGINAL. Similarly,

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-29 Thread David Christensen
On 8/29/21 4:59 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I don't have occasion to use links very often and tend to get confused as to which direction the link is pointing. Specifically, I am trying to redirect backuppc files from the normal /var/lib/backuppc directory to another disk mounted at

Re: Soft link confusion

2021-08-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 04:59:35PM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: > I don't have occasion to use links very often and tend to get confused as to > which direction the link is pointing. Specifically, I am trying to redirect > backuppc files from the normal /var/lib/backuppc directory to another disk >

Soft link confusion

2021-08-29 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, I don't have occasion to use links very often and tend to get confused as to which direction the link is pointing. Specifically, I am trying to redirect backuppc files from the normal /var/lib/backuppc directory to another disk mounted at /media/Backup, a 1TB disk that is not being