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Re: [BackupPC-users] File size disappears after moving TopDir

2011-03-20 01:07:46
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] File size disappears after moving TopDir
From: Mark Edwards <mark AT antsclimbtree DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:05:43 -0700
On Mar 19, 2011, at 9:46 PM, hansbkk AT gmail DOT com wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Mark Edwards <mark AT antsclimbtree DOT com> 
> wrote:
>> I moved my TopDir from a USB hard drive mounted at /var/lib/backuppc, to an
>> NFS share mounted at /mnt/nfs/backuppc.  The share is mounted using autofs
>> rather than fstab.
> 
> Please confirm so it's clear to us noobs: the clean solution would
> have been to just mount the NFS share at the old standard location:
> /var/lib/backuppc
> 
> I can't see messing with source myself. . .

This was chosen because of the use of autofs, which requires a mount 
subdirectory (in my case /mnt/nfs).  I could have chosen to hand over /var/lib 
to autofs, but that didn't seem like a brilliant idea.
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