Les Mikesell a écrit :
> olafkewl wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using backuppc as a package distributed by the Debian distro. The 
>> version I use was delivered by Etch so that it's been upgraded when I 
>> upgraded to Lenny.
>>
>> Here's my conf :
>> 2 external disks are plugged on this box through ESATA connection => 
>> /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc
>> There is only one partition on each of these discs => /dev/sdb1 and 
>> /dev/sdc1 (both ext3)
>>
>> Everything was going well, backing up of Unix and MS machines worked 
>> well since I upgraded the distro (I know...)
>>     
>
> You should probably read this:
> http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/change+archive+directory
>
>   
>> Now, each time a backup is trying to start for a host, i get this error 
>> message on the logfile :
>>
>> "2009-03-16 17:31:25 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in 
>> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/linuxsrv1 and /var/lib/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..."
>>
>> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/linuxsrv1 is dynamically linked to /mnt/sdb1/linuxsrv1
>>     
>
> Earlier versions didn't check at startup and would just fail to pool 
> anything.  Your old logs were probably full of "can't link" messages.
>
>   

Nope, it worked perfectly before and logs were clean

>> The FS is not full at all (50% free). I tried to manually hardlink from 
>> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/linuxsrv1 to /var/lib/backuppc/cpool, it works.
>>     
>
> What command did you use?  It _should_ fail if these are on different 
> filesystems.
>
>   

a simple 'ln' (without -s) source destination

>> All 
>> the files are owned by the 'backuppc' user, then no permissions problem.
>>     
>
>   
>> I've only been able to run a backup for a host which is not attached to 
>> a ESATA disc (that's to say no symlinked in /var/lib/backuppc/pc/)
>>
>> I don't really know what to do...
>>     
>
> The whole archive needs to be on the same filesystem.  If you use a 
> separate disk/partition it needs to be mounted or symlinked at the 
> /var/lib/backuppc level.
>   

OK, thanks for the answer, I'll try that ASAP and I'll give news.

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