>
> 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.
>
Sorry a quick clarification, BackupPC is being run as daemon, so I was wrong
about the permissions. As well, I was able to confirm that the source install
is using "configure.pl: --data-dir /data/BackupPC" although config files sit
in /etc/BackupPC/.
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