[BackupPC-users] oh my ... changing backupdirectory
2012-02-13 05:26:59
hello,
i have been going around in circles and pretty much grazed all i
could find on google and then finally found a way to
get this to work, and though it might be worth communicating this,
so it can maybe get included in the wiki ?
i have succesfully installed backuppc under ubuntu and can connect
and all is fine.
except, i want my backups on a usb mounted external disk and then
could not start the backuppc server anymore
here is what i did:
i followed the instructures here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory#Changing_the_storage_location_of_the_BackupPC_pool
i.e.
sudo
/etc/init.d/backuppc stop
cp -dpR /var/lib/backuppc/. /mnt/backups1/backuppc
mv /var/lib/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc.orig
ln -s /mnt/backups1/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc
sudo
/etc/init.d/backuppc start
and get the famous "can not create test hardlink" error.
the solution after a lot of trying was to
cd /mnt/backups1
sudo su
chmod -R ugo+rwx backupppc
and then finally
sudo
/etc/init.d/backuppc start
would work.
i am still lacking a grasp of what the real problem was and what
would have been the proper way to go about this.
the permissions of the original installation and the copied
installation (which i am using now via soft link) look like this:
original install in /var/lib:
drwxr-x--- 7 backuppc
backuppc 4096 Feb 13 09:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 63 root root 4096 Feb 13 10:23 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:10 cpool
drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:13 log
drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:10 pc
drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 pool
drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 trash
after copy to external disk (could not start backuppc server with
this, but why. the permissions are all the same):
drwxr-x--- 7 backuppc
backuppc 4096 Feb 13 09:37 .
drwxrwxrwx 5 ingo ingo 4096 Feb 13 10:59 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:10 cpool
drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:13 log
drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:10 pc
drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 pool
drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 trash
after chmod (now working)
drwxrwxrwx 7 backuppc
backuppc 4096 Feb 13 09:37 .
drwxrwxrwx 4 ingo ingo 4096 Feb 13 09:44 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:54 cpool
drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:54 log
drwxrwxrwx 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:54 pc
drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 pool
drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 trash
is it the parent directory permissions that are messing the thing up
?
thanks for any comments
cheers
ingo
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