I did finally get around to hacking my drive and enabling NFS. I can now mount it as NFS and backuppc is now working again :)
However, there might still be something wrong with my setup. I am running Mandriva 2009.0 and installed backuppc from the Mandriva respostiory. I updated the config.pl file and one of the things that I did change was the TopDir parameter, which I set to /backups My backups are currently going to /backups/pc/xxxx, where xxxx is the host that I am backing up. I was re-reading the email below about the pool files and I didn't see anything under /backups/cpool or /backups/pool. On further investigation I do see files/directories under /var/lib/backuppc/cpool. By changing the TopDir parameter in the config.pl file have I messed anything up ? Backups seem to be working (very slowly), but they are working. I am assuming that this is ok but not sure. Under /var/lib/backuppc/cpool are directories like 0/ 1/ 2/ 3/, etc but when I drill down into some of these directories I don't see any files. Would appreciate some help. ____________________________________________________ David Williams -----Original Message----- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:01 PM To: dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com; General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device David Williams wrote: > Les, > > I believe that under the Mandriva package we are allowed to change the > TopDir and it is in the config.pl file. That's not likely. When you install from source, the configuration process modifies the code, embedding this location elsewhere. If you don't re-run that process it won't be right. > When I originally started Backuppc > it was complaining that it could not create a hardlink under > /backups/pc/XXXX and /backups/cpool. It wasn't looking at > /var/lib/backuppc. Even with version 3.0 I had TopDir set to /backups and > backups were being created under /backups. The test in 3.1 was added to catch this kind of mistake. > Perhaps it has been 'failing', but I had valid backups that I have restored > from. Whether it was wasting space I don't know, perhaps it was. Also, > even though I cannot currently do backups I can restore from existing > backups and the restore is coming from /backups. Based upon that I would > say that the Mandriva package allows the change of the TopDir. If pooling had ever worked you should have a large tree of files with long hash codes for names under the pool or cpool directory. Does 'ls -lR' or 'find' show them? Backups are stored under the appropriate pc directories in any case, but the pooling that eliminates duplicate copies can only work when the hardlinks succeed. If you do have pooled files (and ls -l should show link counts > 1), then there must be something different about the mount options on the new system. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.49/2149 - Release Date: 06/01/09 17:55:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ 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/