Les Mikesell on 1/16/2014 11:13 PM, wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Adam Hardy > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm trying to get this running and I've changed topDir in config.pl to point >> to a directory on my USB drive, but backuppc complains bitterly and refuses >> to start. >> >> This is the error: >> >> 2014-01-16 22:44:37 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in >> /media/adam/WDPassport2T/backuppc/pc and >> /media/adam/WDPassport2T/backuppc/cpool. Either these are different file >> systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories >> don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of >> inodes or full. Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check each of these >> possibilities. Quitting... >> >> I don't see what the problem is. > If you 'su -s /bin/bash - backuppc' and try the ln command with those > paths from the command line you might get a better diagnostic message. > Does the backuppc user have at least rx permission on all the > directories up that long path? >
It's an ext4 filesystem. I see what you are saying. I set up the USB drive using my own user, assuming it would work for backuppc too. It must have been the /media/adam/ dir - I have changed it to r-x and it all launched OK. Never realised the upper directories' permissions overrode the ones further down. Thanks v. much. So it's fine to leave backuppc's home directory as /var/lib/backuppc, and cpool, log, pc and pool all on the USB drive? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/
