On Sat, 24 Jul 2021, 21:52 Kenneth Porter, <sh...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> On 7/24/2021 1:34 PM, Gavin Henry wrote: > > Remind me, where is it inheriting the perms from? The folders under > > the mount are all correct. > > ext4 stores owner and group id numbers, so you need to do a "chown -R > backuppc.backuppc /var/lib/BackupPC" when it's mounted to set the uid > and gid. Alas, it looks like the UID and GID for backuppc aren't > registered so they get dynamically allocated when the package is > installed. They'll be different on every system. So one might need to do > the chown as part of a startup script if the drive gets shared among > several servers. > Rsync took care of all that for me :) > Tip: > > Mount the drive's root to /mnt/BackupPC, create subfolders /backuppc/etc > and /backuppc/BackupPC, then do a bind mount of those folders to > /etc/BackupPC and /var/lib/BackupPC. That way you'll keep the > configuration on the drive with the data. It makes a bare-metal recovery > easier if the server dies. > That's a good point! Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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