RE: [BackupPC-users] Change Location of Backup

[Justin B. <ju...@pd...>]

Hi Chris,

To change the location where BackupPC writes its files, find the file Lib.pm
and modify the $TopDir in it.

Or, if you prefer, a symbolic link will also work (it's what I use). Here's
how I move the BackupPC files to a different location (in this case, a hard
drive that's been mounted as /backups):

- Stop BackupPC:
     /etc/init.d/backuppc stop

- Copy the BackupPC files to the new hard drive
     cp -a /var/lib/backuppc /backups

- Delete the old files
     rm -r /var/lib/backuppc

- Link the new location to the old location
     ln -s /backups/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc

- Start BackupPC Again:
     /etc/init.d/backuppc start


Hope that helps!

Justin Best

-----Original Message-----
From: bac...@li...
[mailto:bac...@li...] On Behalf Of Chris
Willard
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:58 PM
To: bac...@li...
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Change Location of Backup

Hi,

I have just installed BackupPC on my Debian system using the package 
manager. I was not given a choice of where to install the backups. Is 
there a way to change to location as I would like to use a separate disk 
for backups. Would it work if I moved the data from the current location 
and then used a symbolic link?

Regards,

Chris Willard



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