[BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

[jbk <jb...@ma...>]

I am trying to understand this subject heading so that I can 
correct my backup archive. I have been running backuppc for 
over a year now and the backed up data appears to be good. I 
have done individual file restores without issues. What I am 
  not seeing is any pooled data. I am using the Fedora 
distribution (10) binary of Backuppc. When I originally set 
up the archive directory I pointed it to an external usb 
disk that is mounted in a location that is not in the 
original "topdir" path. The disk is persistently mounted on 
reboot via fstab. I changed the "topdir" path in the config 
file to match the archive location backuppc still uses 
/var/lib/backuppc/ for the backuppc user home directory 
which contains the .ssh/   directory etc...

#fstab mount point
LABEL=/backupdisk	/data/bilbo/backup	ext3	defaults	0 0

#/etc/Backuppc/config.pl
$Conf{TopDir} = '/data/bilbo/backup/BackupPC';

So if I understand the Wiki topic 'Change Archive Directory' 
I need to somehow mount the archive directory with the bind 
option to mount, but getting there from where I am is a 
little bit confusing.

Just to add some context this is a home network of 3 
computers, a server, a workstation and a laptop. The total 
compressed full backup of these three boxes is around 30Gig. 
I rotate 4 60gig usb disks once a week and at the end of the 
month I reinsert the first disk and start again.

So how do I set the bind mount point given the current mount 
location? Will that make it possible for the hardlinks to be 
established?

Jim KR