Hi, Thanks to http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc I now have backup pc running on my network and backing up four laptops. I now need to enlarge the disk space needed for the backups, and I was wondering what would be the best way to do this. I have installed two additional harddrives, and set them up with lvm, thanks to http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm I then mounted the new volume at /var/data using the ext3 filesystem. How do I now get BackupPc to use the additional space?
backups currently resides in /var/lib/backuppc df -h gives me the following: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 38G 24G 12G 68% / varrun 46M 92K 46M 1% /var/run varlock 46M 0 46M 0% /var/lock procbususb 46M 84K 46M 1% /proc/bus/usb udev 46M 84K 46M 1% /dev devshm 46M 0 46M 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/fileserver-data 69G 54G 12G 83% /var/data
Ok, now that your new HDD is mounted on /var/data, I'd move the /var/lib/backuppc folder to it (e.g. Code: mv /var/lib/backuppc /var/data ) and then create a symlink: Code: ln -s /var/data/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc That should work.