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Re: Soft link confusion

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On 8/29/21 4:59 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote:
> 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


Rather than trying to symlink the backup repository directory out from 
underneath backuppc (which could lead to confusion and disaster in the 
future when you have forgotten about the symlink), can you change a 
backuppc configuration setting so that the backups are put where you 
want them?


David

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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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