On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Berteaud
<daniel AT firewall-services DOT com> wrote:
>
> Instead of modifying the package, you can simply create some symlinks so
> the logs and configuration are stored on the data disk:
> Before installing the rpm (and after having mounted the dedicated
> partition in /var/lib/BackupPC), just do:
>
> mkdir -p /var/lib/BackupPC/{etc,log}
> ln -s /var/lib/BackupPC/etc /etc/BackupPC
> ln -s /var/lib/BackupPC/log /var/log/BackupPC
>
> I do this on a lot of servers so I can simply take the disk off one
> server, and plug into another, and the data+config are immediately
> available.
> I don't use this rpm but the one in the EPEL repo on Centos 4 based
> system (SME Server). I think it'll work the same way with this one.
>

I haven't looked at the EPEL repo, but I can't imagine that they're
doing anything radically different from us.

I think this option is the best approach if you would like to have all
your BackupPC files contained in one location, but it isn't
LSB-compliant.


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