Les Mikesell wrote at about 17:57:41 -0500 on Tuesday, June 2, 2009:
 > David Williams wrote:
 > > 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.
 > 
 > If you installed from scratch from the sourceforge tarball you would be 
 > able to change the storage location, but the location is embedded in the 
 > code during the install process.  If you are using a version packaged 
 > for a distribution, this step has already been done and you can't change 
 > it with just the TopDir setting.  You really need to mount the disk at 
 > /var/lib/backuppc (copy everything that needs to be there first). You'll 
 > probably also need to mount the disk async to get any performance.

At the level of /var/lib/backuppc you can use a soft link. i.e., you
can mount the disk anywhere and then just create a soft link from
there to /var/lib/backuppc.

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