Hi Stuart,

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:18:33AM +0100, Stuart Buckell wrote:
> #/etc/init.d/backuppc start  (using the debian-backuppc script, it's
> configured properly, all paths correct).
> 
> Error.
> Starting backuppc: 2008-05-15 11:16:21 Can't create a test hardlink between
> a file in /data/BackupPC/pc and /data/BackupPC/cpool.  Either these are
> different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or
> these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the
> file system is out of inodes or full.  Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check
> each of these possibilities. Quitting...
> 
> 
> Now I have created a hardlink manually between pc and cpool, works
> perfectly.
> SELinux isn't enabled.
> The directories /data/BackupPC* are all owned by backuppc:backuppc
> 
> The init.d file is backuppc:backuppc (also tried root:root).

The init.d file should be owned by root.
What file system do you use for /data/BackupPC?

Try this and send the output to the list:
su - backuppc
cd /data/BackupPC/pc
touch testfile
ln testfile ../cpool
ls -l testfile

Tino.

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