Monte Milanuk wrote:
> ... 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?
That's not going to work properly. You would have to rebuild backuppc
to change TOPDIR. Instead, leave TOPDIR alone and create a link from
TOPDIR to /srv/backuppc.
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Bowie
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