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Backup location changed (New release)
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 11:12 pm
by Govo
Hi
Can anyone explain why the backup location has changed in the new release
/home/backup
To
/backup
Took me an hour to figure out why it was given me restore errors, finally got it going.
anyways
Please advise
Cheers
Govo
Re: Backup location changed (New release)
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 6:09 am
by skurudo
Re: Backup location changed (New release)
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 12:26 pm
by Govo
Hi
OS Ubuntu 14.4
root@server1:~# ls -la /
total 93
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 13 23:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 13 23:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 14 11:46 backup
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 13 20:05 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 13 20:09 boot
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4100 Nov 13 20:22 dev
drwxr-xr-x 111 root root 4096 Nov 14 00:00 etc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 13 21:50 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 13 20:07 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-68-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 13 18:55 initrd.img.old -> /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-23-generic
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Nov 13 20:59 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov 13 18:52 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 13 18:54 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 2013 mnt
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 1373 Nov 13 20:59 notifications.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 13 18:53 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 127 root root 0 Nov 13 21:03 proc
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Nov 13 21:00 root
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 880 Nov 14 12:23 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Nov 13 20:58 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 13 20:59 srv
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Nov 13 20:22 sys
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Nov 14 12:20 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Nov 13 18:53 usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Nov 13 20:57 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Nov 13 20:07 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-68-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Nov 13 18:55 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-23-generic
root@server1:~# cd /backup
root@server1:/backup# dir
admin.2015-11-13.tar admin.2015-11-14.tar tmp.MY7h6szdS1
root@server1:/backup#
And in Home
no backup folder
root@server1:~# ls -la /home
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 14 12:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 13 23:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin admin 4096 Nov 14 12:26 admin
Re: Backup location changed (New release)
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 4:28 pm
by skurudo
Hmm... I'll check this.
Re: Backup location changed (New release)
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 5:21 pm
by skurudo
In older version on / where symlink backup to /home/backup folder
But in new version you can choose, where you backup will be -> /edit/server/ -> Backup
As you see, if you have fresh install, there is backup in /, but if you upgraded - then you have symlink and archives in /home/backup.
Re: Backup location changed (New release)
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:55 am
by Govo
Thanks for the reply skurudo, that explains it, this was a new install.
Cheers
Govo
Re: Backup location changed (New release)
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:59 am
by skurudo
Govo wrote:Thanks for the reply skurudo, that explains it, this was a new install.
Glad to help. ;)