fatima ech-charif a écrit :
> hi i would install backuppc in ubuntu 
> and i was  this problem:
>
> > 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...
>
> i use this solution   
>
>
> su - backuppc
> cd /data/BackupPC/pc
> touch testfile
> ln testfile ../cpool
> ls -l testfile
>
>
> and i get this :
>
>
>  
> su - backuppc
>  pas de réperertoire ,connection avec HOME=/
>
>
> and how to  create this directory if it doesn't exist and make it writable by 
> the backuppc user.
>
>
>
>
> To do these things if you haven't as root do:
>
>
>
> # mkdir /data/BackupPC
>
> # chown -R backuppc:backuppc /data/BackupPC

I had some problems to install backuppc on Debian Etch too, and I solved 
this problem by use the Debian package instead of the tar.gz try the 
Ubuntu package perhaps this help you:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=backuppc

Sam.



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