Hi,
What is the account used to mount the NAS?
backuppc or root?
Thanks.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Tom Fallon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently I had to rebuild a backuppc server I’ve inherited from previous
> admin. Running Ubuntu 14.04 server and Backuppc version 3.2.1 installed
> from repositories. The backups are stored on a Synology NAS (RS3413XS+
> running DSM 4.3) which I’ve mounted using NFS.
>
>
>
> If I mount the NAS (mount <NAS IP>:/volume5/LinuxBackups
> /var/lib/backuppc) I can see the backups on the NAS and can do a “touch
> test.txt” and modify contents so permissions seem ok. And the backuppc web
> GUI is accessible however I get the following error.
>
>
>
> Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server
>
> This CGI script (/backuppc/index.cgi) is unable to connect to the BackupPC
> server on <Servername> port -1.
> The error was: unix connect: Connection refused.
> Perhaps the BackupPC server is not running or there is a configuration
> error. Please report this to your Sys Admin.
>
> If I try and unmount the NAS I get error that mount is in use (makes
> sense) but when I try and stop backuppc I get another error
>
>
>
> No process in pidfile '/var/run/backuppc/BackupPC.pid' found running; none
> killed.
>
>
>
> A ps –eg | grep backuppc shows
>
>
>
> username@servername~$ ps -ef | grep backuppc
>
> backuppc 1874 1 0 16:26 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC -d
>
> backuppc 1877 1386 0 16:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/share/backuppc/lib/realindex.cgi
>
> backuppc 1878 1386 0 16:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/share/backuppc/lib/realindex.cgi
>
> backuppc 1884 1386 0 16:31 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/share/backuppc/lib/realindex.cgi
>
> username 1947 1629 0 16:33 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto backuppc
>
>
>
> If I kill all backuppc services then unmount the NAS and restart backuppc
> service and GUI works again as expected.
>
>
>
> I have tried searching the backuppc documentation and googled fairly
> extensively however only hit I turned up with the above error was someone
> using a QNAP NAS on which the firmware had been updated. Also seeing
> several pointers to the Backuppc wiki but this does seems to only contain a
> couple of screenshots.....
>
>
>
> So my question is – what is the correct procedure to mount an external NAS
> to the /var/lib/backuppc directory so that backuppc works as expected? Am I
> missing something obvious here?
>
>
>
> Cheers Kiweegie
>
>
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