Steve wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >  
> > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory
> 
> In "Changing the name of the archive directory," the part about
> changing Lib.pm is critical for the pre-3.2 version and easily missed.

It looks to me like this has already been done.  And in the upstream
source, not in any patches.  I just reviewed the Debian specific
patches and they look fine to me but do not cover anything in this
area.

File Lib.pm:
  sub new
  ...
    $topDir     = '/var/lib/backuppc' if ( $topDir eq "" );

I am guessing that the wisdom of the net had determined that the above
doesn't work as intended and doesn't get topDir from the config file.
Okay.  I will put a debug statement in there (just for my own info)
and will override the value at that point.

I can certainly symlink from one location to the other.  Have done so.
But wanting to have a better understanding I am going to poke into the
problem a little more.  Because I would like to be able to recover the
now existing backups and have them linked into the cpool to save disk
space.

Bob

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