that worked like a charm! i created a symlink to my array where my backups
are stored and backuppc is pooling like it should be now. Thanks to
everyone who helped me solve this!
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Adam Goryachev <
mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au> wrote:
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> Brian Woodworth wrote:
> > That's unfortunate. I can't just mount my array there as it is
> > basically my NAS that use to store all of my media. It sounds like I
> > will have to go without pooling if I want to back up to another location
> > other than /var/lib/backuppc
>
> Actually, not quite, any of the following should work:
> 1) mkdir /media/backups;chown backuppc.backuppc /media/backups;mv
> /var/lib/backuppc/* /media/backups/;ln -s /media/backups /var/lib/backuppc
> This will put the pool, pc, etc dirs onto /media/backups, and then
> symlink /var/lib/backuppc to /media/backups. This should work, without
> needing to modify TopDir/etc... put them all back as they were. Just be
> careful when upgrading the package it doesn't remove the symlink in the
> future.
>
> 2) http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
> [quote]
> Since Linux 2.4.0 it is possible to remount part of the file hierarchy
> somewhere else. The call is
> mount --bind olddir newdir
>
> In your case: "mount --bind /media/backups /var/lib/backuppc"
>
> I'm sure there are other methods as well, just search the mailing list,
> the wiki, etc for TopDir....
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
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> Adam Goryachev
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