On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:25:01PM -0400, jbk wrote:

> I am trying to understand this subject heading so that I can 
> correct my backup archive. I have been running backuppc for 
> over a year now and the backed up data appears to be good. I 
> have done individual file restores without issues. What I am 
>   not seeing is any pooled data. I am using the Fedora 
> distribution (10) binary of Backuppc. When I originally set 
> up the archive directory I pointed it to an external usb 
> disk that is mounted in a location that is not in the 
> original "topdir" path. The disk is persistently mounted on 
> reboot via fstab. I changed the "topdir" path in the config 
> file to match the archive location backuppc still uses 
> /var/lib/backuppc/ for the backuppc user home directory 
> which contains the .ssh/   directory etc...
> 
> #fstab mount point
> LABEL=/backupdisk     /data/bilbo/backup      ext3    defaults        0 0

The easiest way is to just mount your USB drive at /var/lib/backuppc/.
No bind mount neccessary, that way.

Bind-Mounting should work like this in /etc/fstab:
/data/bilbo/backup  /var/lib/backuppc/  none    bind    0   0

> #/etc/Backuppc/config.pl
> $Conf{TopDir} = '/data/bilbo/backup/BackupPC';

You would also have to patch BackupPC/Lib.pm if I remember correctly.
Which is not a Good Thing(tm) if you installed some RPMs.

HTH,

Tino.

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