On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Adam Hardy
wrote:
>
>>>
>>> So it's fine to leave backuppc's home directory as /var/lib/backuppc, and
>>> cpool,
>>> log, pc and pool all on the USB drive?
>> They won't be used if you change TopDir (in the current version) so it
>> is wasted space, but it won't h
Les Mikesell on 1/17/2014 2:01 PM, wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Adam Hardy
> wrote:
>> Thanks v. much.
>>
>> So it's fine to leave backuppc's home directory as /var/lib/backuppc, and
>> cpool,
>> log, pc and pool all on the USB drive?
> They won't be used if you change TopDir (in the
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Adam Hardy
wrote:
>
> It's an ext4 filesystem. I see what you are saying. I set up the USB drive
> using
> my own user, assuming it would work for backuppc too. It must have been the
> /media/adam/ dir - I have changed it to r-x and it all launched OK. Never
> rea
Les Mikesell on 1/16/2014 11:13 PM, wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Adam Hardy
> wrote:
>> I'm trying to get this running and I've changed topDir in config.pl to point
>> to a directory on my USB drive, but backuppc complains bitterly and refuses
>> to start.
>>
>> This is the error:
>>
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Adam Hardy
wrote:
> I'm trying to get this running and I've changed topDir in config.pl to point
> to a directory on my USB drive, but backuppc complains bitterly and refuses
> to start.
>
> This is the error:
>
> 2014-01-16 22:44:37 Can't create a test hardlink be
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Adam Hardy
wrote:
> 2014-01-16 22:44:37 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in
> /media/adam/WDPassport2T/backuppc/pc and
> /media/adam/WDPassport2T/backuppc/cpool. Either these are different file
> systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, o
I'm trying to get this running and I've changed topDir in config.pl to point to
a directory on my USB drive, but backuppc complains bitterly and refuses to start.
This is the error:
2014-01-16 22:44:37 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in
/media/adam/WDPassport2T/backuppc/pc and
/me
--On Saturday, January 11, 2014 12:04 AM +0800 Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
wrote:
> Yes, if the external disk is missing (or NFS not mounted properly), the
> mount point will just point to your local disk, and BackupPC will fill
> your disk to the max.
Create the subdirectories at the mount point,
Les Mikesell on 1/10/2014 5:01 PM, wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
> wrote:
>> Yes, if the external disk is missing (or NFS not mounted properly), the
>> mount point will just point to your local disk, and BackupPC will fill your
>> disk to the max.
>>
>> If you
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> I think the top level directory has to exist (or the target of the
> symlink if you use one) for that to happen. I'm not sure if that's
> the case for devices that udev mounts by label names or not. That
> is, if the mount point directo
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:57 AM, wrote:
> > It happen to my customer who use 2nd disk for BackupPC data, and at one
> > time the disk did not mount properly, and the 1st disk was filled to the
> > max.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I have always worried that this could happen -- especially since I
>
Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote at about 00:04:07 +0800 on Saturday, January 11,
2014:
> Yes, if the external disk is missing (or NFS not mounted properly), the
> mount point will just point to your local disk, and BackupPC will fill your
> disk to the max.
>
> If you suddenly found out that
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
wrote:
> Yes, if the external disk is missing (or NFS not mounted properly), the
> mount point will just point to your local disk, and BackupPC will fill your
> disk to the max.
>
> If you suddenly found out that your OS disk is full, that
Yes, if the external disk is missing (or NFS not mounted properly), the
mount point will just point to your local disk, and BackupPC will fill your
disk to the max.
If you suddenly found out that your OS disk is full, that indicates
something wrong with your mounting
It happen to my customer who
On 01/10 02:09 , Adam Hardy wrote:
> I have just started using this setup and I don't know what's going
> to happen. I assume when the drive isn't mounted, backuppc will
> complain but just try again later.
Best you test that. :)
I don't know the details of how you have it set up, but one of the p
I'm using a USB drive and with Ubuntu 13, it automatically mounts the drive to
/media/my-user-name/volume-label which in my case is
/media/adam/WDPassport2TB
I have just started using this setup and I don't know what's going to happen. I
assume when the drive isn't mounted, backuppc will compl
Ok thanks for the info! :-)
On 01/10/2014 11:35 AM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
> Hi Dayo,
>
> It is possible. BackupPC did not care where is your storage, as long as is
> mountable and writeable.
>
> But, your backup speed could be slow, depending on the speed of your USB
> connection
>
> Tha
Hi Dayo,
It is possible. BackupPC did not care where is your storage, as long as is
mountable and writeable.
But, your backup speed could be slow, depending on the speed of your USB
connection
Thanks.
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:09 PM, jargon wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if it's possible
Hi
I was wondering if it's possible to have the Data directory on an
external USB drive that is connected to the box were BackupPC is installed?
Thanks
Dayo
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