From: Steve <ze...@cf...> - 2013-05-01 16:22:43
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---- bac...@ko... wrote: > Steve wrote at about 23:51:11 -0400 on Monday, April 29, 2013: > > I'd run out of time and decided it must be a filesystem problem and I would look at it more tomorrow. > > > > However... > > > > # ls -l /var/lib/BackupPC > > drwxr-x---. 18 495 root 4096 Mar 18 06:00 cpool > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 145 Mar 19 22:00 extlinux.conf > > -r--r--r--. 1 root root 32768 Mar 19 22:00 ldlinux.sys > > drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Jul 16 2008 lost+found > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 60928 Mar 19 22:00 menu.c32 > > drwxr-x---. 5 495 root 4096 Mar 17 19:31 pc > > drwxr-x---. 2 495 root 4096 Jul 26 2008 pool > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 145 Mar 19 22:00 syslinux.cfg > > drwxr-x---. 2 495 root 4096 Mar 18 06:00 trash > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnfilel.txt > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnpathl.txt > > > > Hmmm... there is no user 495. Perhaps that was the backuppc user on my old system. > > Do cpool, pc etc have to be owned by backuppc? > > BINGO. > The program is run as user 'backuppc' so the data must be > readable/writeable by user backuppc. > > you need to do something like: > > chown -R backuppc pc cpool pool trash Yup, that gets backuppc to start and I can get to the admin web page. On to the next problem. I expected to see all my backups so I could start restoring but there are none. Then I remembered that I named the computer differently when I upgraded. I see in /var/lib/BackupPC/pc there is a directory called "steve" which was the name of my old computer so I tried renaming that to "stevesDesktop" which is the new name. (I also have a stevesLaptop in case you were wondering) I restarted backuppc but I still don't see my old backups. I noticed on the host status page that it knows about a host called stevesdesktop (all lower case) so I'll try renaming to that tonight. Steve. |