backu...@kosowsky.org on 2/21/2014 5:42 PM, wrote: > Adam Hardy wrote at about 12:00:39 +0000 on Thursday, February 20, 2014: > > Every time I reboot my Ubuntu server, I have to restart the backuppc > > manually. > > I figured this must be an Ubuntu packaging problem, something to do > > with the sysvinit config, but I've checked those out and from my > > limited knowledge of sysvinit, backuppc appears to have good settings > > in the appropriate run-levels: > > 0 - - > > 1 - K20 > > 2 - S20 > > 3 - S20 > > 4 - S20 > > 5 - S20 > > 6 - - > > S20 seems a bit early though. Apache for instance has S91. > > However it could also be an error in the start-up script rather than it > > not executing at all - for instance I have the backups on a removable > > USB harddrive, and I am playing with Apache at the moment - could > > either of those stop backuppc from starting or even logging? I can't > > My guess is that the USB drive is the problem. > On start-up, BackupPC checks to see if hard links can be written to > TopDir -- which in your case is on the USB drive. > Then, either because BackupPC starts too early or the USB drive > takes too long to be recognized and mounted, BackupPC exits on > start-up. > The fact that it works now and didn't at other times could just be the > luck/flakiness of whether the USB mount point is ready before or after > BackupPC launches. > Good point, I shall watch carefully at the next reboot and put in a change request for those starting values if it happens again.
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