Re: [BackupPC-users] When will backuppc begin pooling?

that worked like a charm! i created a symlink to my array where my backups are stored and backuppc is pooling like it should be now. Thanks to everyone who helped me solve this!

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au> wrote:

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Brian Woodworth wrote:

> That's unfortunate. I can't just mount my array there as it is
> basically my NAS that use to store all of my media. It sounds like I
> will have to go without pooling if I want to back up to another location
> other than /var/lib/backuppc

Actually, not quite, any of the following should work:
1) mkdir /media/backups;chown backuppc.backuppc /media/backups;mv
/var/lib/backuppc/* /media/backups/;ln -s /media/backups /var/lib/backuppc
This will put the pool, pc, etc dirs onto /media/backups, and then
symlink /var/lib/backuppc to /media/backups. This should work, without
needing to modify TopDir/etc... put them all back as they were. Just be
careful when upgrading the package it doesn't remove the symlink in the
future.

2) http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
[quote]
Since Linux 2.4.0 it is possible to remount part of the file hierarchy
somewhere else. The call is
mount --bind olddir newdir

In your case: "mount --bind /media/backups /var/lib/backuppc"

I'm sure there are other methods as well, just search the mailing list,
the wiki, etc for TopDir....

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Adam

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