Agreed, the webpage will not work until the server is running. I do get
that, just trying to be complete in my giving of useless information! I
appreciate all the help from the group getting a rookie up to speed. I do
believe that looking at my options once I get this all setup I will have
learned something and have a great application running/working!
> So $TopDir isn't changed? Or you are running a version earlier than
> 3.2.0? Or permissions are wrong. Or all of the above.
I am out of town on business, so I can't check until I am on a connection I
can xrdp into the machine, but I believe when I checked before while
reading other posts I have 3.2.1. When I grabbed this text, it was AFTER I
changed it back to the "stock" location. The text DID change when I had it
set at /data01/backuppc. (I did try to keep it in a backuppc directory,
just like it was in \var\lib). I had created that directory AND given it
the same permissions as \var\lib\backuppc before I did the mv into the
directory.
> However, in the distribution-packaged
> versions the packager has already done this step and made the decision
> according to the distribution guidelines and you are trying to 2nd
> guess it. I'd do the re-install to get back to a known-good point.
> But, my best guess at what is wrong is that you have a symlink at
> /var/lib/backuppc pointing to something with the wrong
> ownership/permissions. If you try to create that hardlink yourself
>as the backuppc user you might get a better diagnostic message.
You are correct, the distro (Ubuntu 12.10) package did set everything up,
just stinks it doesn't give you the prompt for the backup data location. I
did the re-install before leaving and have it at a known good point.
Webpage works, but I am not backing up anything yet (save the localhost it
auto-setup). I also took a look at the directory and I believe it was the
/var/lib/log directory that was a sym link, to where I wasn't sure yet.
I will start from that point, but wanted to at least thank the group for
the help so far. I do feel as if I am learning and just don't want to make
a mess of things, appreciate the dealing with a newbie at some of this!
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Travis Schwenke
> <travis.schwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am obviously missing something very fundamental..
> >
> > Changed Password (check) [sudu su - was the trick, then could run
> commands
> > correctly]
> >
> > Then the issue.. I went and and changed the TopDir setting and did the
> mv
> > command.. Now the server isn't running. I tried to restart, no luck,
> tried
> > to mv things back, no luck. I think my misunderstanding is the
> filesystem
> > and mounts...
> >
> > /dev/sda6 : mounted as root filesystem
> > /dev/sda9 : mounted as /data01
> > /dev/sda1 : mounted as /home (don't think that matters in this case)
> >
> > I did NOT try to restart the apache2 service.
> >
> > Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server
>
> That's not going to work until the backuppc server starts...
>
> >
> > 2013-01-05 09:12:51 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...
>
> So $TopDir isn't changed? Or you are running a version earlier than
> 3.2.0? Or permissions are wrong. Or all of the above.
>
> > So, I think the mv must be the issue and it didn't like something...
> When I
> > tried to move it back, I got an error on the log directory.
>
> I thought most packaged versions would re-create everything in the
> archive partition if it doesn't exist and permissions permit it.
>
> > I have seen the one page about moving and copying, but some parts are not
> > making sense, I think it must be due to some links.
> >
> > I don't want to uninstall and reinstall it all, as I want to understand
> how
> > to do this correctly. Maybe that is easiest and then go from there.
>
> The first thing to understand is that if you started with the
> sourceforge tarball you would run an install script that lets you put
> things anywhere you want. However, in the distribution-packaged
> versions the packager has already done this step and made the decision
> according to the distribution guidelines and you are trying to 2nd
> guess it. I'd do the re-install to get back to a known-good point.
> But, my best guess at what is wrong is that you have a symlink at
> /var/lib/backuppc pointing to something with the wrong
> ownership/permissions. If you try to create that hardlink yourself
> as the backuppc user you might get a better diagnostic message.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
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