Just trying to follow up on this.
So, the workbook drive that I have cannot create hard links L so
this means I can no longer use this drive for doing backups, since the hardlink
check will stop this. Is the hardlink issue related to the drive itself, or is
it related to the fact that it is formatted to NTFS format ?
Is there a way to format this drive so that it can create
hardlinks (ext3?) and can be used for backups again ? It’s a 1TB drive and I’d
hate to have to buy another drive.
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David Williams
From: Les Stott [mailto:les AT cyberpro.com DOT au]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:21 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Cc: dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
Les Mikesell wrote:
David Williams wrote:
When I originally started Backuppc
it was complaining that it could not create a hardlink under
/backups/pc/XXXX and /backups/cpool. It wasn't looking at
/var/lib/backuppc. Even with version 3.0 I had TopDir set to /backups and
backups were being created under /backups.
The test in 3.1 was added to catch this kind of mistake.
Yes, i found this way back in December 2007, see here....
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net/msg08103.html
but no one ever replied to my post.
In short yes, the hardlink test is a good thing, but to me it seems it gets done
too early.
In the old 3.0.0 you could just format a usb drive as ext3 and plug it in on
the same mount point and backuppc would start, create pc, cpool, pool and trash
directories and carry on.
Now in 3.1.0 it does the hardlink check before creating any directories and
becuase the hardlink check is done on subdirectories it fails.
I would absolutely love it if the top level directories were still created by
backuppc first before doing the hardlink test. If those directories are created
because they dont exist and the hardlink test fails then just remove the
directories. Or leave them there, all you've done is create a few directories.
Or how about just making some temp directories as part of the hardlink test
underneath the $Topdir? That would be the same as trying to create hard links
under TopDir/pc/xxxx etc.
Regards,
Les Stott
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