From: <ha...@gm...> - 2011-09-02 20:32:32
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On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote: > I don't see any other message yet, but the way to get it right is to > just mount the partition you want to use for storage in the place > where backuppc wants it (should be /var/lib/backuppc with the deb > package). Or put a symlink there pointing to the location you want. > If you do this before the install, everything should land in the right > place and get the right permissions. The critical things are that > the pool/cpool/pc directories must all be in the same filesystem so > hardlinks can work and with versions before 3.2 you can't change the > TOPDIR location after the initial setup which is already done in the > deb and rpm packaged versions. Usually if you get these wrong, you > get an error when starting the service about not being able to make a > hard link so I'm not quite sure what is happening > I meant that I'd done exactly as you suggested above, but with bind mounts rather than symlinks, with the specific locations and steps as outlined in this post http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=CAOAgVpwU13YitOFF%2BNSXH3rYJVUNu%2B2KjpGqt2STL6sVgpdQ1g%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=backuppc-users which you've also responded to. Sorry to have multiple threads going at the same time, but obviously they may be more related than I thought. I've just uninstalled the backuppc package, then either manually deleted or verified these were removed: /etc/backuppc /usr/share/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc and rebooted. Re-installed, this time without anything extra in the fstab, just letting the package go where it wants, but in the end of the post-install script, get a message that the hard-link test failed. Did I miss something in uninstalling that may have interfered with the re-install? Could I please get a pointer to what the permissions should be on these locations and their contents? That's actually what I was trying to get by going through the installation again. . . Thanks much for your help. . . |