I'm assuming Ubuntu is close enough to stock Debian. The main BackupPC log is in /var/lib/backuppc/log. If you need to look at compressed logs, use BackupPC_zcat, as the developer didn't use standard gzip-compatible compression.
My startup section looks like this: 2014-09-03 14:00:48 Reading hosts file 2014-09-03 14:00:48 BackupPC started, pid 19467 2014-09-03 14:00:48 Running BackupPC_trashClean (pid=19485) 2014-09-03 14:00:48 Next wakeup is 2014-09-04 00:00:00 I expect if BackupPC is getting an error, you'll see it this log. If it's failing silently, try starting it outside the init script so start-stop-daemon doesn't eat its output... sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC ...and see what output you get. -- Carl D Cravens ([email protected]), Ext 228 (620.327.1228) Lead System Architect ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
