Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Snyder
Craig Barratt wrote: > Does the file /data/BackupPC/backups/pc/slacker/2/fEric/fhello.txt exist > or not? > I did not check, I missed your question. Sorry about that, my bad. > Does the directory /data/BackupPC/backups/cpool/5/e/e exist or not, and > is it writable by BackupPC? > Non it did n

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-10 Thread Craig Barratt
Eric writes: > > Does the directory /data/BackupPC/backups/cpool/5/e/e exist? What happens > > when > > you try to manually make the link: > > > > su backuppc > > link /data/BackupPC/backups/pc/slacker/2/fEric/fhello.txt > > /data/BackupPC/backups/cpool/5/e/e/5ee4aa1b190383553c1a7712ad2

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-10 Thread John Moorhouse
Holger Parplies wrote: > Try 'man ln'. You want the '-s' option (soft link), presuming you really > still want the links. Basically, it's > 'ln -s /where/the/link/should/point/to /name/of/the/link'. You can use > relative paths for both and you can create more than one link with one > command if yo

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-10 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, John Moorhouse wrote on 09.04.2007 at 20:16:37 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors]: > I've also got problems with the link error when I change the topDir from > the default install location (var/lib/backuppc) to a mount on a raid > array, ie moving all the subdire

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-10 Thread John Moorhouse
Eric Snyder wrote: > > 2) I created individual links for each directory (pc, cpool and pool) > that point to actual directories on hdb and then tried the backup. The > backup run fine and links were created on the target drive (hdb) > inside dev/backupdisk/backups/cpool. > How do you do this 'cr

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-09 Thread Eric Snyder
Craig Barratt wrote: Eric writes: 2007-04-08 21:20:02 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling MakeFileLink(/data/BackupPC/backups/pc/slacker/2/fEric/fhello.txt, 5ee4aa1b190383553c1a7712ad260358, 1) The -4 error means that a file cannot be added to the pool (ie: a new hardlink cpool

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-09 Thread John Moorhouse
I've also got problems with the link error when I change the topDir from the default install location (var/lib/backuppc) to a mount on a raid array, ie moving all the subdirectories within topDir to the new location. I've tried mounting the raid on a partition at root level '/backup-files', and

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Eric writes: > 2007-04-08 21:20:02 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling > MakeFileLink(/data/BackupPC/backups/pc/slacker/2/fEric/fhello.txt, > 5ee4aa1b190383553c1a7712ad260358, 1) The -4 error means that a file cannot be added to the pool (ie: a new hardlink cpool/5/e/e/5ee4aa1b190383553c1a7

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_link errors

2007-04-08 Thread Eric Snyder
First of all...Craig, for all the times I have posted I don't know if I ever thanked you for this great piece of software! I sleep much better knowing that I have a good backup plan working. I had BackupPC running under Ubuntu. I abandon Ubuntu because it was having too many problems. I have in