> 
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:41 AM, jdurand 
> <backuppc-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote: 
> I have read the Wiki suggestions for this problem. My backups are on a 
> different disk /mnt/sdb1/backuppc than Backuppc installation so I symlinked 
> /data/backuppc to /mnt/sdb1/backuppc and am still receiving the error only 
> now it states BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling 
> MakeFileLink(/data/BackupPC/pc/hostname...). Can anyone give any suggestions 
> on the resolution? Also, lately a backup has taken 4 days to complete full 
> (many many subdirs in folder it is backing up, but incremental takes 20 mins, 
> also it is around 70Gigs total). 
> 
> If you installed from the sourceforge tarball you should be able to 
> specify where you want the archive. If you used a .deb/.rpm packaged 
> version, /data/backuppc doesn't sound like the right place. Try 
> making one of the links that are failing in the logs manually as the 
> backuppc user - you may get a better error message. 
> 
> As for timing - fulls do a complete read on the data on the target 
> side for a block checksum comparison. Incrementals skip anything 
> where the previous full has the same timestamp and file length. 


Our BackupPC was installed via source. I tried to mkdir /data/BackupPC/pc/test 
and got permission denied. The full backup that is taking 4 days to complete is 
only 69Gigs/230k files, using tar, and the systems do not seem to be "working" 
very hard.
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