Re: [BackupPC-users] Debian packaging

[Adam G. <mai...@we...>]

You could also modify the /etc/passwd files to manually configure the uid/gid to match the old system.... 

Too late now, but there is usually more than one way to solve a problem.

Regards
Adam

On 24 November 2025 9:06:26 am AEDT, Kenneth Porter <sh...@se...> wrote:
>I'm migrating from CentOS (an RHEL clone) to Debian. I moved my external BackupPC drive to it (mounted at /var/lib/BackupPC) and copied the /etc/BackupPC directory over. (I actually keep that directory on the root of the external drive and mount it when the rest of the drive is mounted, so the config stays with the drive.)
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>The first issue I ran into was needing to rename the BackupPC directories to backuppc, all lowercase. A couple of symlinks took care of that.
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>I then chowned all the directories to backuppc:www-data. Doing that for the external drive took over a day. There's got to be a better way for Linux to handle removable media with millions of files. I'd read that bindfs can change the effective owner of a drive but it's a FUSE filesystem so there's a performance cost.
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>The trickiest bit was that BackupPC was ignoring my per-host configs in /etc/BackupPC/pc. Digging into the code, I found that Text.pm had been patched (by the Debian packager?) to not look there. It disables useFHS and then removes the line to fall back to looking in the pc subdirectory. Why?
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>Now I have my backups working again.
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