On 7/22/11 3:49 AM, Alain Péan wrote:
> Hi Jiahwei,
>
> As you can see, you have a problem with a hardlink. The default location
> for BachpPC data pool is /var/lib/BackupPC. I guess you tried to change
> this location to another one, by setting a hard link. I tried this
> myself, and it failed. Whad I did, is to mount an external storage under
> /backup, copied the content of /var/lib/BackupPC inside (with the same
> owner, backuppc, and rights), and change the configuration in
> /etc/BackupPC/config.pl :
>
> #$Conf{TopDir}      = '/var/lib/BackupPC/';
> $Conf{TopDir} = '/backup';
>

This only works with 3.2 versions.  With earlier versions you can set the 
location during the initial install, but if you  use a distribution packaged 
version (.deb or .rpm) that has already been done and you need to symlink or 
bind mount the new partition into the expected location.  If you installed from 
source and haven't changed the location, it may be a permission problem that is 
keeping the test hard link from working or perhaps the filesystem you are using 
doesn't support hardlinks (vfat or a remote windows share).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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