Monte Milanuk wrote: > ... and cleaning up afterwards :| > > So... I have an older PC running Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS server, with Samba > configured and working, and got BackupPC running. I thought I had > enough setup to do a trial run - a back up of my home directory on my > desktop PC running Vista. It kicked off fine and all looked to be > going well... until a few minutes into the initial full backup I > remembered that the default 'home' for the backuppc user was > /var/lib/backuppc, and everything was likely going to be stowed down > there, instead of under /srv like I had intended. Given that '/' (and > /var) is mounted on hda1 (one 13GB PATA drive) and /srv is mounted on > two 500GB SATA drives in a software RAID 1 config... I'd much rather > backup the 150-200GB from my home directory onto /srv, than into > /var/lib/backuppc. I'm thinking after another half-hour or so it'd > start having some problems as is ;) > > So... from looking at the web interface and the online documentation, > it looks as though what I need to do is change _TOPDIR_ to > '/srv/backuppc/'. After that... it should put all the stuff like > _TOPDIR_/trash, _TOPDIR_/pool, _TOPDIR_/pc/$host, etc. under > /srv/backuppc/trash, > /srv/backuppc/pool, etc. and I should be free to go back and delete > the appropriate directories under /var/lib/backuppc? I'd like to free > up the several gigabytes of data that got stored in there before I > wised up ;) What should I use for permissions/ownership on > /srv/backuppc when I create it?
That's not going to work properly. You would have to rebuild backuppc to change TOPDIR. Instead, leave TOPDIR alone and create a link from TOPDIR to /srv/backuppc. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
