On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 2:44 PM Robert E. Wooden <b...@donelsontrophy.com> wrote:
> I rebuilt a machine to update to CentOS 8 and ease upgrades because > BackupPC v.4.40 (as of 2020-10-28) is available via epel & PowerTools repo > per this: > https://kifarunix.com/install-and-configure-backuppc-on-centos-8/ > > I created the symlink for /var/lib/BackupPC to connect to /dataR6 (a > raid6 array). I copied all the directories and files over from > /var/lib/BackupPC, changed directory and file permissions of the new > directory to match the old and restarted BackupPC. > Copied or moved? If you unmount dataR6 do you still the the directories in /var/lib/BackupPC? Not that it should matter, since mounting will mask any files left in the directory :) Symbolic links should work but I've always preferred bind mounting. > Apparently I did something incorrectly. BackupPC runs but, will not > capture a client. "Clicking" 'FULL BACKUP' of any existing client causes > nothing. Checking 'Server Status' and no backups have started. Checking > logs states "Can't open log file." > > Suggestions on what to do? > If you log in as the backuppc user can you create files in /var/lib/BackupPC? # su -l backuppc -s /bin/bash $ touch /var/lib/BackupPC/test Or something like that. Also, look at both the BackupPC logs and the apache logs. Thanks, Richard
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