Hi,

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:49, Steve Blackwell<zephod AT cfl.rr DOT com> wrote:
> 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling
> MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml,
> b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1)
>
> followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files
>
> What is going on here?

I used to have exactly this problem.

I guess you changed TopDir in your config.pl file, right?

Well, BackupPC 3.1.0 has a bug in that TopDir change will not affect
the "pool" and "cpool" directories, so it will try to create a
hardlink in /var/lib/BackupPC for a file in /media/disk, which are in
different filesystems, so it fails.

See this post for a patch that can be used to fix this issue:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080808032558.GG13869%40gratch.parplies.de

Alternatively, you may remove the /var/lib/BackupPC directory and
create a symbolic link to /media/disk in its place.

You can also upgrade your setup to 3.2.0 beta, which has this bug already fixed.

HTH,
Filipe

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