Timothy J Massey wrote at about 12:01:06 -0400 on Thursday, October 31, 2013:
 > Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote on 10/30/2013 10:24:05 PM:
 > 
 > > as I understand it, the backups from before the change from smb to 
 > rsyncd are
 > > linked into the pool. Since the change, some or all are not. Whether the
 > > change of XferMethod has anything to do with the problem or whether it
 > > coincidentally happened at about the same point in time remains to be 
 > seen.
 > > I still suspect the link to $topDir as cause, and BackupPC_link is 
 > independent
 > > of the XferMethod used (so a change in XferMethod shouldn't have any
 > > influence).
 > 
 > To add my anecdote, I use a symbolic link for all of my BackupPC hosts:  a 
 > couple dozen?  And they all work fine.  It's been my standard procedure 
 > for almost as long as I've been using BackupPC.
 > 
 > Example: 
 >         ls -l /var/lib
 >         lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root    root     22 Apr 22  2013 BackupPC -> 
 > /data/BackupPC/TopDir/
 > 
 >         mount
 >         /dev/sda1 on /data type ext4 (rw)
 > 
 > I understand phobias from earlier problems (see my earlier e-mail about my 
 > thoughts on NFS and backups...) but I do not think this one is an issue.

Agreed - I often link TopDir without any issues...

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