Hi David,
Check your permissions on your backup folders. There is a chance that  
your new installation create your BackupPC user and group with a  
different numerical id than your previous install. If you do a ls -la  
on /backups and get a number back instead of a user/group name that is  
your problem.
Mike

Quoting David Williams <dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com>:

> All,
>
> Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB external
> WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and which I
> mount via cifs.  I recently had to upgrade my machine to a newer version on
> Linux (Mandriva 2009.0) and with that comes BackupPC 3.1.
>
> Once I had setup installed BackupPC 3.1, mounted my backup device using cifs
> and restored my configuration files I started up BackupPC only to get the
> message:
>
> "Can't create a test hardlink......."
>
> And BackupPC would not start :-(  Thankfully I have been able to comment out
> this check from the BackupPC program and get BackupPC up and running so that
> I can restore what I need from my backup drive via the web interface.
>
> Under BackupPC 3.0 I never had a problem performing backups and I can still
> access the backups that I have from the 3.0 version.  There are no error
> messages in any of the log files.  So, did something change between 3.0 and
> 3.1 ?  Is there a way I can check manually by creating a hardlink on the
> backups partition from the shell ?  Sorry, not a Linux guru so not well up
> on the commands to do this.
>
> I did take a look through the archives but nothing jumped out to me as to
> the problem.  I would assume that since backups were working just fine with
> 3.0 that they should be fine in 3.1 and that my external drive is ok?
>
> Would appreciate any help as I'd like to get my backups up and running
> again.
>
> I did do a df -i and got the following output:
>
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> //192.168.15.6/public
>                                 116M    1.7M    115M    2% /backups
>
> Regards,
> ____________________________________________
>
>
>
>



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