CrashPlan - what directory on the HDA do I back up?

[bigrizz]

Hi folks. My first post. I've built my Amahi HDA and have just installed CrashPlan. I moved my shares from /var/hda/files out of the root mount to /var/hda/files/drives/drive3, which is the backup source I used in CrashPlan. It looks like CrashPlan is backing up the symlinks and not the actual files. My files are stored in a Greyhole pool where I have two disks pooled.

/var/hda/files/drives/drive3
/var/hda/files/drives/drive6

Am I pointing CrashPlan at the right backup source? If not, where should I be pointing it?

Thanks.

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

In order to work with files locally on the HDA, you need to install the mount_local_shares script for Greyhole. This should ensure CrashPlan backs up the files versus the symlinks.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Mount_Shares_Locally

[bigrizz]

Thanks for your quick reply. I worked through the instructions to which you linked. In the wiki it says to use the user name with which Fedora was installed but when I use that, it tells me it doesn't exist, which is correct. I have no users on the HDA using that user name. I used a user name for the Fedora install that is not one that I use on the HDA. I ended up using an existing user on my HDA and that seems to work . Do you see any dramas with my using an existing user on my HDA? Or should I actually create a user on my HDA with the user name I created when originally installing Fedora?

I'm getting some weird errors when logging onto my HDA from the Fedora GUI. I'll post those in a separate topic. I've made some classic Linux newb mistakes, which probably hasn't helped. I somehow ending up with two users where one had a capital R and the other a small r as the first letter. The capital R had ownership of all the files stored on the machine but somehow the little r user couldn't access any of the files. I ended up changing ownership to the small 'r' user and deleting the capital 'R' user. That may have something to do with my problems.

[radioz]

I ended up using an existing user on my HDA and that seems to work

I think that is the correct way to do it. As long as that user has permissions to access the shares you want to back up, that should work great.