Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing Backup Location
2010-06-29 14:29:39
On 6/29/2010 7:21 AM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 June 2010 12:18:19 waverider wrote:
>> I created a symlink - hopefully correctly. The original install placed
>> backups in /var/lib/backuppc and I wanted to redirect them to
>> /media/data/backuppc. I created the symlink with ln -s /var/lib/backuppc
>> /media/data/backuppc which created a folder named backuppc in the
>> /media/data/ folder. Hopefully I got this the right way around.
>
> That command is correct.
Ummm, the idea is to create /var/lib/backuppc as a symlink pointing to
wherever the storage really is (after renaming the original
/var/lib/backuppc and copying any existing data you need to retain to
the new location). So that command is backwards.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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