Hi David, Check your permissions on your backup folders. There is a chance that your new installation create your BackupPC user and group with a different numerical id than your previous install. If you do a ls -la on /backups and get a number back instead of a user/group name that is your problem. Mike
Quoting David Williams <[email protected]>: > All, > > Up until very recently I have had BackupPC 3.0 working with my 1TB external > WD Mybook world edition device, which is connected to my LAN and which I > mount via cifs. I recently had to upgrade my machine to a newer version on > Linux (Mandriva 2009.0) and with that comes BackupPC 3.1. > > Once I had setup installed BackupPC 3.1, mounted my backup device using cifs > and restored my configuration files I started up BackupPC only to get the > message: > > "Can't create a test hardlink......." > > And BackupPC would not start :-( Thankfully I have been able to comment out > this check from the BackupPC program and get BackupPC up and running so that > I can restore what I need from my backup drive via the web interface. > > Under BackupPC 3.0 I never had a problem performing backups and I can still > access the backups that I have from the 3.0 version. There are no error > messages in any of the log files. So, did something change between 3.0 and > 3.1 ? Is there a way I can check manually by creating a hardlink on the > backups partition from the shell ? Sorry, not a Linux guru so not well up > on the commands to do this. > > I did take a look through the archives but nothing jumped out to me as to > the problem. I would assume that since backups were working just fine with > 3.0 that they should be fine in 3.1 and that my external drive is ok? > > Would appreciate any help as I'd like to get my backups up and running > again. > > I did do a df -i and got the following output: > > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > //192.168.15.6/public > 116M 1.7M 115M 2% /backups > > Regards, > ____________________________________________ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
