Re: [BackupPC-users] oh my ... changing backupdirectory

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Ingo P. Korndoerfer <korndoerfer AT crelux DOT com> wrote:

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

If you are starting from scratch, the really simple approach is to mount the partition you want to use at the location the package expects (i.e. /var/lib/backuppc) before you install the backuppc package so everything lands in the right place.

ln -s /mnt/backups1/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc
sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start

and get the famous "can not create test hardlink" error.

I've forgotten the details of symlinks - I think the target keeps its own ownership and permissions.

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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