On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Daniel Berteaud <dan...@firewall-services.com> wrote: > > Instead of modifying the package, you can simply create some symlinks so > the logs and configuration are stored on the data disk: > Before installing the rpm (and after having mounted the dedicated > partition in /var/lib/BackupPC), just do: > > mkdir -p /var/lib/BackupPC/{etc,log} > ln -s /var/lib/BackupPC/etc /etc/BackupPC > ln -s /var/lib/BackupPC/log /var/log/BackupPC > > I do this on a lot of servers so I can simply take the disk off one > server, and plug into another, and the data+config are immediately > available. > I don't use this rpm but the one in the EPEL repo on Centos 4 based > system (SME Server). I think it'll work the same way with this one. >
I haven't looked at the EPEL repo, but I can't imagine that they're doing anything radically different from us. I think this option is the best approach if you would like to have all your BackupPC files contained in one location, but it isn't LSB-compliant. -- Paul Mantz http://www.mcpantz.org BackupPC - Network Backup with De-Duplication http://www.backuppc.com Zmanda - Open source backup and recovery http://www.zmanda.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/