> -----Original Message----- > From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wb...@parplies.de] > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:57 PM > To: David Nalley > Cc: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty hosts status page after server move > > Hi, > > David Nalley wrote on 2009-05-19 14:08:15 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Empty hosts > status page after server move]: > > I recently 'puppetized' my BackupPC config and moved from hosting it on > > physical hardware to hosting it on a vm and also moved from CentOS 5.x > > to Fedora, both are on BackupPC 3.1.0 and I have backup storage > > available via a SAN, so I merely remounted that on the new box. > > Everything seems to work great for the most part except that the 'host > > status' page shows that no backups have occurred for any of my hosts, > > despite the fact that many of them have been running and successfully > > completed. Even the individual host pages show zero backups. Having > > copied configs and staying on the same version of BackupPC I find this a > > bit odd. I have googled around, but don't see any similar results. > > Anyone have ideas of where to begin looking? > > does the backuppc user have the same UID on the new system as it did on the > old one? If not, changing the UID in /etc/passwd (and chown()ing any local > files the backuppc user might own) is likely to be significantly faster than > chown()ing the whole pool, aside from the fact that it would allow you to > continue to access the pool from both old and new system (don't do this > simultaneously, though). > > Regards, > Holger
I had already recursively chowned the entire TopDir to the new user, so the pool should be completely available to the new user. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
