I did finally get around to hacking my drive and enabling NFS. I can now
mount it as NFS and backuppc is now working again :)
However, there might still be something wrong with my setup.
I am running Mandriva 2009.0 and installed backuppc from the Mandriva
respostiory.
I updated the config.pl file and one of the things that I did change was the
TopDir parameter, which I set to /backups
My backups are currently going to /backups/pc/xxxx, where xxxx is the host
that I am backing up.
I was re-reading the email below about the pool files and I didn't see
anything under /backups/cpool or /backups/pool.
On further investigation I do see files/directories under
/var/lib/backuppc/cpool. By changing the TopDir parameter in the config.pl
file have I messed anything up ? Backups seem to be working (very slowly),
but they are working. I am assuming that this is ok but not sure.
Under /var/lib/backuppc/cpool are directories like 0/ 1/ 2/ 3/, etc but when
I drill down into some of these directories I don't see any files.
Would appreciate some help.
____________________________________________________
David Williams
-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:01 PM
To: dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com; General list for user discussion,
questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
David Williams wrote:
> Les,
>
> I believe that under the Mandriva package we are allowed to change the
> TopDir and it is in the config.pl file.
That's not likely. When you install from source, the configuration
process modifies the code, embedding this location elsewhere. If you
don't re-run that process it won't be right.
> 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.
> Perhaps it has been 'failing', but I had valid backups that I have
restored
> from. Whether it was wasting space I don't know, perhaps it was. Also,
> even though I cannot currently do backups I can restore from existing
> backups and the restore is coming from /backups. Based upon that I would
> say that the Mandriva package allows the change of the TopDir.
If pooling had ever worked you should have a large tree of files with
long hash codes for names under the pool or cpool directory. Does 'ls
-lR' or 'find' show them? Backups are stored under the appropriate pc
directories in any case, but the pooling that eliminates duplicate
copies can only work when the hardlinks succeed. If you do have pooled
files (and ls -l should show link counts > 1), then there must be
something different about the mount options on the new system.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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