SOLVED
I was able to get this crazy issue sorted out. I went to synaptic,
uninstalled backuppc, apache2.2-common, and apache (complete removal for
all). Afterward, I reinstalled backuppc: apt-get install backuppc. I can't
remember if I tweaked anything else inbetween,t hough.
SOLVED
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Dennis Blewett <dennis.blew...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Here is the situation:
>
> 1) installed BackupPC on Ubuntu 10.10
> 2) Decided I didn't like the way I installed it, because I wanted to have
> /var/lib/backuppc on a partition with more than 11 GB
> 3) Read this:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Change_archive_directory
> 4) Decided that maybe I can save myself time and delete the
> /var/lib/backuppc folder (I can't remember if I apt-get remove or deleted
> the folder first)
> 5) After deleting the /var/lib/backuppc folder, I "apt-get remove backuppc"
> 6) I made a new partition with GParted that was 20GB.
> 7) I edited /etc/fstab to have that partition point to /var/lib/backuppc
> 8) I rebooted
> 9) I checked to see if the /var/lib/backuppc folder was there (I can't
> remember), I think I recreated it
> 10) Rebooted
> 11) Attempted to re-install backuppc
> 12) Received error message:
>
> ===== START ERROR MESSAGE
> Module authn_file already enabled
> Module authz_user already enabled
> Your MPM seems to be threaded. Selecting cgid instead of cgi.
> Module cgid already enabled
> * Starting
> backuppc...
> 2011-02-21 18:11:04 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc and /var/lib/backuppc/cpool. Either these are
> different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or
> these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the
> file system is out of inodes or full. Use df, df -i, and ls -ld to check
> each of these possibilities. Quitting...
> invoke-rc.d: initscript backuppc, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing backuppc (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> backuppc
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> ==== END ERROR MESSAGE
>
>
> 13) Came here asking for help to get backuppc installed again and mounted
> to a separate partition (/dev/sda12)
>
>
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