Soft link confusion

From	"Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Soft link confusion
Date	2021-08-30 02:00 +0200
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Hi all,

I don't have occasion to use links very often and tend to get confused 
as to which direction the link is pointing. Specifically, I am trying to 
redirect backuppc files from the normal /var/lib/backuppc directory to 
another disk mounted at /media/Backup, a 1TB disk that is not being 
used. I wrote "ln -s /var/lib/backuppc  /media/Backup". This produced 
"backuppc -> /var/lib/backuppc" on the 1TB disk. The problem is that I 
now have duplicate files in both places. Specifically the cpool, log, 
pc, and pool directories appear on both drives. This is obviously not 
what I want. I need the pool files on the Backup disk and not on my 
system disk. What have I done wrong.

Sincerely appreciated any help.

Gary R

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Soft link confusion "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com> - 2021-08-30 02:00 +0200
  Re: Soft link confusion Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-30 02:20 +0200
    Re: Soft link confusion Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2021-08-30 15:20 +0200
      Re: Soft link confusion Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-08-30 15:40 +0200
  Re: Soft link confusion David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-08-30 02:40 +0200
    Re: Soft link confusion "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com> - 2021-08-30 16:50 +0200
      Re: Soft link confusion Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 12:20 +0200

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