I fought these messages yesterday. In my case the reason is that topDir - the directory where the backup data is stored - is a separate file-system, and that BackupPC has problems dealing with that situation. Googling provided 2 alternative solutions (there appears to be quite an epidemy of people suffering from this problem):
1. Make /var/lib/backuppc an empty directory (if currently you have data there, start by saving it elsewhere), and than mount your topDir file-system at /var/lib/backuppc (also documented in http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html). 2. Use the --bind option of mount (the Google reference suggests -o bind, I guess another and probably obsolete flavour of --bind, not documented on my Mandriva platform). I start by mounting my file system for backup data quite traditionally at the mount point "/backup", but after that I add an additional mount instruction: mount --bind /backup /var/lib/backuppc That acts like a hard link between /backup and /var/lib/backuppc - you see the same data through either mount point (and, evidently, you must again start by saving any data at /var/lib/backuppc) - and BackupPC appears to be happy, no more error messages. You will probably want to avoid the explicit mount --bind ... instruction: this is done by adding to your /etc/fstab - I placed it directly after the "mount /dev/xxx /backup ..." instruction - the following line: /backup /var/lib/backuppc none rw,bind 0 0 with the result that the 2 mount points get mounted at boot time. I also changed owner and group of /backup to the backup user - but there I am less sure how correct or imperative that is. I read that a new release (3.1.1) of backuppc is being prepared - short of fixing this problem, it might be a good idea to add a couple of words to the documentation, warning about this restriction in the configurability of the topDir variable. Good luck! _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
