Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC not starting at boot

Sounds like backuppc is starting before the external disk has mounted 

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Tim Fletcher

On 5 Aug 2012, at 21:42, Norman Goldstein <normvcr AT telus DOT net> wrote:

> I am running
> BackupPC.i686                        3.2.1-7.fc17
> 
> and BackupPC does not load at boot.  However, I can always get it 
> started manually with
> 
> systemctl start backuppc.service
> 
> I have issued the command
> 
> systemctl enable backuppc.service
> 
> so that backuppc should be starting at boot.
> In the system log, I used to see the message
> 
> ... Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /var/lib/BackupPC//pc 
> and /var/lib/BackupPC//cpool....
> 
> but I am not even seeing this any more.
> 
> My /var/lib/BackupPC is a soft-link to an external hard drive, which 
> supports hard links
> (obviously, since I am able to start BackupPC, manually).
> 
> I did a test to have /var/lib/BackupPC as a plain directory, and then 
> BackupPC
> started up properly at boot.  It seems that BackupPC has a problem with
> the external drive, even though it worked fine under Fedora 15.  I moved the
> mount line of the external drive in /etc/fstab to the top of /etc/fstab, 
> but that
> did not help.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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