[BackupPC-users] backuppc.serviceJob for backuppc.service failed

[Ethan T. <et...@gm...>]

New user here. Running Debian 8.7 Jessie.

Last week I realized there was no 'target folder' option in BackupPC and
that I needed to create a symbolic link to a much larger RAID array that
will fit all my backups. I followed this guide
<http://tristram.squarespace.com/home/2012/3/11/moving-the-backuppc-data-directory-to-an-external-hard-disk.html>
in order to do so. This went smoothly, however once I opened the BackupPC
web GUI, I was getting this error:

Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server
This CGI script (/backuppc/index.cgi) is unable to connect to the BackupPC
server on [server] port -1.
The error was: unix connect: Permission denied. getting this error:

Then I found I was unable to restart the backuppc service:

/etc/init.d/backuppc start
[....] Starting backuppc (via systemctl): backuppc.serviceJob for
backuppc.service failed. See 'systemctl status backuppc.service' and
'journalctl -xn' for details.
 failed!

systemctl status backuppc.service
● backuppc.service - LSB: Launch backuppc server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/backuppc)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-03-27 12:15:48 PDT; 4h
18min ago
  Process: 3173 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/backuppc start (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)

Running journalctl -xn results in 'No journal files were found.'

It sounds like a permissions issue to me, but I'm still fairly new to Linux
in general and I've had things blow up in my face when screwing with
permissions and ownership in the past, so I'm hesitant to try things. Where
should I begin?

Thanks in advance.