I am trying to understand this subject heading so that I can correct my backup archive. I have been running backuppc for over a year now and the backed up data appears to be good. I have done individual file restores without issues. What I am not seeing is any pooled data. I am using the Fedora distribution (10) binary of Backuppc. When I originally set up the archive directory I pointed it to an external usb disk that is mounted in a location that is not in the original "topdir" path. The disk is persistently mounted on reboot via fstab. I changed the "topdir" path in the config file to match the archive location backuppc still uses /var/lib/backuppc/ for the backuppc user home directory which contains the .ssh/ directory etc...
#fstab mount point LABEL=/backupdisk /data/bilbo/backup ext3 defaults 0 0 #/etc/Backuppc/config.pl $Conf{TopDir} = '/data/bilbo/backup/BackupPC'; So if I understand the Wiki topic 'Change Archive Directory' I need to somehow mount the archive directory with the bind option to mount, but getting there from where I am is a little bit confusing. Just to add some context this is a home network of 3 computers, a server, a workstation and a laptop. The total compressed full backup of these three boxes is around 30Gig. I rotate 4 60gig usb disks once a week and at the end of the month I reinsert the first disk and start again. So how do I set the bind mount point given the current mount location? Will that make it possible for the hardlinks to be established? Jim KR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/