On 10/09/2021 09:18, Dave Sherohman wrote:
I'm not sure why Debian decided to do the pc/ symlink thing, but it works. Debian was doing that with the BPC 3.x packages in debian10 and it never caused any problems that I'm aware of.
I am coming back to the symlink question, I did not take it seriously enough. According to backuppc documentation ( http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/BackupPC-4.0.0.html, Config and Log Directories) it is meant to point to a directory that contains per-pc definitions - they serve to override definitions originally made in config.pl but which are to be different for specific hosts.
As it is in the present Debian package, this symlink does more or less nothing and does not at all allow to define per-pc configurationd - a very important drawback. You say "it works" - what makes it look as if it works is that in absence of such per-pc definitions the definition in config.pl is used.
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