Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>
>> I read that a new release (3.1.1) of backuppc is being prepared -  
>> short
>> of fixing this problem, it might be a good idea to add a couple of  
>> words
>> to the documentation, warning about this restriction in the
>> configurability of the topDir variable.

There isn't a restriction if you do the install yourself.

> What solution are you proposing exactly? AFAIK BackupPC doesn't care  
> if topDir is on another filesystem or not and how it is mounted. Just  
> make sure the filesystem it's on supports hardlinks and that your  
> backuppc user can access topDir and it should just work. It did for me.

If you install backuppc from the sourceforge tarball, you can choose 
your own topdir during the install procedure and everything is adjusted 
to use it.   In packaged versions already configured to a linux 
distribution's conventions this step is already done and even though 
there is a variable setting for it, not everything observes a run-time 
change correctly - but it may be possible to fix that.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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