Ambrose writes: > On 13/08/06, Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BackupPC_nightly didn't find any files in the pool. > > Can you look in the pool and confirm that is the case? > > If it isn't empty, then there is some permissions, path or > > installation problem that prevents BackupPC_nightly from > > seeing the files. If it is empty, either there aren't > > any backups completed, or the linking to the pool fails, > > which could be explained by $TOPDIR/pc being on a different > > file system than $TOPDIR/cpool, or a permissions problem. > > Thanks for the information. I found the problem. > > I have reformatted the partition and somehow forgot to rerun > configure.pl, and the pool directory did not exist at all. For > some reason, BackupPC still backed up all my files even > without the pool directory.
The backups will be fine, but the pool linking will fail. All that means is you won't get the hardlinking storage benefit. > Perhaps BackupPC could print some error to the effect of > "no pool directory found" instead of zero files in the pool, > in case someone (maybe me again) does this stupid thing > again in the future. I'll add that to the todo list. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
