Your warning is vague and completely unhelpful...

Assuming you are using a well-maintained distro and a supported
backuppc set of packages, it is extremely unlikely that running system
updates and backuppc simultaneously would cause any problems.

Since you didn't mention the distro or the maintainer of your backuppc
packages, let alone the versions of each or let alone which specific
updates were run and whether the problem is reproducible, your advice
is vague to the point of irrelevancy...


oetschi.ex...@bluewin.ch wrote at about 16:27:51 +0200 on Sunday, August 1, 
2021:
 > Hello backuppc,
 > This is a message to warn all users:
 > During a full backup of all my clients the backuppc task went crazy and I 
 > could read in the log file that backuppc wanted to start a backup every 
 > minute until I stopped the task. After that backuppc did not start anymore. 
 > After some days troubleshooting and an advice from google I checked all 
 > client config.pl for correct permissions. I saw that there was only a 
 > config.pl.old file with the creation date of that last full backup but there 
 > was no config.pl file anymore. I copied back the config.pl.old file to 
 > config.pl. and to my astonishment backuppc is running again. Somehow during 
 > that "fatal" full backup the system installed some updates. So it could be 
 > that system update and full backup don't like each other and do things they 
 > shouldn't. 
 > So backuppc users please do not make (full-) backups and system updates 
 > together. You could lose some time in investigating and not be able to use 
 > backuppc.
 > Kind regards
 > Chris Koenig
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