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Soft link confusion



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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