On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 06:08:04PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > > > Thanks for all of the help last time . I installed Backupninja > easily. After getting it running I realized that it didn't quite do > what I wanted. I was looking for a package that could be installed > in the server with little need for additional programs to be > installed on each machine. So, after some searching, I switched to > Backuppc. Now Backuppc will do what I want but it needs to run > first. To cut to the chase I have (I think) the config.pl file set > to backup /home, /etc, and /var with a couple of exclusions. As the
You should be able to do all your configuration from the web interface. (Once you get backuppc running, of course). > debian readme file suggested, I pasted the supplied script into the > Apache2 config file. This seems to be working OK. I then moved the > /var/lib/backuppc files to my spare hard drive '/backupdisk' and did > a soft link from /var/lib to /backupdisk/backuppc. I then did the > following > > root/.../etc# service backuppc start > Starting backuppc...2012-02-09 17:17:05 Can't create a test hardlink > between a file in /backupdisk/pc and /backupdisk/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... > > I searched for an answer and found dozens, all different and mostly > old. The either made no sense or didn't work. Specifically- all of > my disks on all of my machines are ext3 file systems. Changing the > permissions to 755 on all of the files didn't work. > > The path's involved look like: > /var/lib/backuppc -> /backupdisk/backuppc > /backupdisk/backuppc/ cpool, pc etc. > Your symlink should be ok. I think you've got a permissions/ownership problem. /var/lib/backuppc needs to be owned by backuppc.backuppc ext3 is definitely ok. FAT32 is the most common one that you cannot use with backuppc since it doesn't support hard links. > I am running Debian Squeeze on all systems > I am using rsync and have ssh installed on all systems. > All of the systems communicate with each other over ssh > My backup server is running two GB size disks. Backuppc is running > on one disk and using the other for the backup data. I have backuppc running on Squeeze. Let me know if you have any other specific questions. There is a backuppc mailing list, as well. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
