Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC V4.4.0-3 won't start after restore

[<Mat...@gm...>]

Hello - I'm happy again😊️

chown -R backuppc:backuppc /var/log/backuppc was the missing link😅️

Sorry for asking a few minutes too early.

Br
Matthias

Am Montag, dem 09.03.2026 um 18:17 +0100 schrieb Matthias--- via BackupPC-users:
> Hello,
> 
> I destroyed my system (Debian Bullseye) and restored it from backup. During this the UID of
> backuppc
> has been changed.
> I "chown -R backuppc:backuppc" all files in /var/lib/backuppc, /usr/share/backuppc/lib,
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin and /etc/backuppc to backuppc:backuppc.
> 
> But /etc/backuppc/pc is still owned by root:root.
> ls -l /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 backuppc backuppc 89034 12. Apr 2021  BackupPC
> 
> service backuppc startservice backuppc status
> ● backuppc.service - BackupPC server
>      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/backuppc.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>      Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2026-03-09 18:13:31 CET;
> 283ms
> ago
>     Process: 42138 ExecStart=/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC (code=exited, status=13)
>    Main PID: 42138 (code=exited, status=13)
>         CPU: 72ms
> 
> What is going wrong? How to find the root case?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
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