> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:41 AM, jdurand > <backuppc-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote: > I have read the Wiki suggestions for this problem. My backups are on a > different disk /mnt/sdb1/backuppc than Backuppc installation so I symlinked > /data/backuppc to /mnt/sdb1/backuppc and am still receiving the error only > now it states BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling > MakeFileLink(/data/BackupPC/pc/hostname...). Can anyone give any suggestions > on the resolution? Also, lately a backup has taken 4 days to complete full > (many many subdirs in folder it is backing up, but incremental takes 20 mins, > also it is around 70Gigs total). > > If you installed from the sourceforge tarball you should be able to > specify where you want the archive. If you used a .deb/.rpm packaged > version, /data/backuppc doesn't sound like the right place. Try > making one of the links that are failing in the logs manually as the > backuppc user - you may get a better error message. > > As for timing - fulls do a complete read on the data on the target > side for a block checksum comparison. Incrementals skip anything > where the previous full has the same timestamp and file length. > > Our BackupPC was installed via source. I tried to mkdir > /data/BackupPC/pc/test and got permission denied. The full backup that is > taking 4 days to complete is only 69Gigs/230k files, using tar, and the > systems do not seem to be "working" very hard. >
Sorry a quick clarification, BackupPC is being run as daemon, so I was wrong about the permissions. As well, I was able to confirm that the source install is using "configure.pl: --data-dir /data/BackupPC" although config files sit in /etc/BackupPC/. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by jdur...@hrsg.ca via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ 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/