[BackupPC-users] Changing _TOPDIR

... and cleaning up afterwards :|

So... I have an older PC running Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS server, with Samba configured and working, and got BackupPC running. I thought I had enough setup to do a trial run - a back up of my home directory on my desktop PC running Vista. It kicked off fine and all looked to be going well... until a few minutes into the initial full backup I remembered that the default 'home' for the backuppc user was /var/lib/backuppc, and everything was likely going to be stowed down there, instead of under /srv like I had intended. Given that '/' (and /var) is mounted on hda1 (one 13GB PATA drive) and /srv is mounted on two 500GB SATA drives in a software RAID 1 config... I'd much rather backup the 150-200GB from my home directory onto /srv, than into /var/lib/backuppc. I'm thinking after another half-hour or so it'd start having some problems as is ;)

So... from looking at the web interface and the online documentation, it looks as though what I need to do is change _TOPDIR_ to '/srv/backuppc/'. After that... it should put all the stuff like _TOPDIR_/trash, _TOPDIR_/pool, _TOPDIR_/pc/$host, etc. under /srv/backuppc/trash,
/srv/backuppc/pool, etc. and I should be free to go back and delete the appropriate directories under /var/lib/backuppc? I'd like to free up the several gigabytes of data that got stored in there before I wised up ;) What should I use for permissions/ownership on /srv/backuppc when I create it?

TIA,

Monte

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[BackupPC-users] Changing _TOPDIR_