Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up a linux system to separate drive

I did the following:

After changing the TOPDIR variable, you need to copy the files from the original backup location to the drive that you want to backup to using the following command: cp -a -R .......

Also make sure your permissions are correct.

Jurie Botha

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From: Gerry George <george.gerry AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up a linux system to separate drive
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:04:24 -0400

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Murray Davis <murray.g.davis AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

I installed 3.1.0-9ubuntu1.2 on ubuntu 10.0.04 on /dev/sda1. I have a second disk /dev/sdb1 which is mounted as /mnt/sdb1. I want to backup the server to this second drive. I changed the variable TopDir to be /mnt/sdb1/backups. When I try to run a full backup, I see the following in the log...

2012-03-23 16:14:18 User backuppc requested backup of localhost (localhost)
2012-03-23 16:14:19 localhost: test hardlink between /mnt/sdb1/backups/pc/localhost and /mnt/sdb1/backups/cpool failed
I set the XferMethod to rsync. I excluded /mnt/sdb/backups from the backup.
How do I set up the hardlink?
mgd

Do you have the folder /mnt/sdb1/backups created and with the necessary permissions?

This is how I have mine, which is mounted at /Backups/BackupPC: drwxrwsr-x 6 backups root 101 Mar 5 23:17 BackupPC

Gerry George

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