Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> My backuppc server has 2 HDs. Up to the present I have been backing up all
> machines to one drive. But now I am adding a machine to backup and want
> it's backups to go to the 2nd HD. My original idea was to just create a
> symbolic link for the new machine under the pc directory where all the
> backups are.
> However I get an error to the effect:
> Can't create a test hardlink between a file in
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/[newmachine] and /var/lib/backuppc/cpool.  Either
> these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support
> hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions
> problem, or the file system is out of inodes or full.  Use df, df -i, and
> ls -ld to check each of these possibilities. Quitting...
> 
> So I am wondering if there is a different/better way to approach this.

Have you read the top link on this page?
http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/Tips+and+Tricks
You can move the whole archive but not just part of it.


-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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