BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing Backup Location

2010-06-29 14:29:39
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing Backup Location
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:27:32 -0500
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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