hello, i have been going around in circles and pretty much grazed all i could find on google and then finally found a way to get this to work, and though it might be worth communicating this, so it can maybe get included in the wiki ?
i have succesfully installed backuppc under ubuntu and can connect and all is fine. except, i want my backups on a usb mounted external disk and then could not start the backuppc server anymore here is what i did: i followed the instructures here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory#Changing_the_storage_location_of_the_BackupPC_pool i.e. sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc stop cp -dpR /var/lib/backuppc/. /mnt/backups1/backuppc mv /var/lib/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc.orig ln -s /mnt/backups1/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start and get the famous "can not create test hardlink" error. the solution after a lot of trying was to cd /mnt/backups1 sudo su chmod -R ugo+rwx backupppc and then finally sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start would work. i am still lacking a grasp of what the real problem was and what would have been the proper way to go about this. the permissions of the original installation and the copied installation (which i am using now via soft link) look like this: original install in /var/lib: drwxr-x--- 7 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 09:37 . drwxr-xr-x 63 root root 4096 Feb 13 10:23 .. drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:10 cpool drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:13 log drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:10 pc drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 pool drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 trash after copy to external disk (could not start backuppc server with this, but why. the permissions are all the same): drwxr-x--- 7 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 09:37 . drwxrwxrwx 5 ingo ingo 4096 Feb 13 10:59 .. drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:10 cpool drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:13 log drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:10 pc drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 pool drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 trash after chmod (now working) drwxrwxrwx 7 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 09:37 . drwxrwxrwx 4 ingo ingo 4096 Feb 13 09:44 .. drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:54 cpool drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:54 log drwxrwxrwx 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 Feb 13 10:54 pc drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 pool drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4096 Jun 30 2011 trash is it the parent directory permissions that are messing the thing up ? thanks for any comments cheers ingo
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