On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 9:55 AM G.W. Haywood <bac...@jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there, > On Mon, 23 Sep 2024, gregrwm wrote: > > just installed EPEL BackupPC-4.4.0-9.el9.x86_64 on an AlmaLinux release > 9.4 > > kvm, merged changes into config.pl, and brought forward other .pl files > > from my working opensuse tumbleweed backuppc 4 server. systemctl start > > gives no errors, /var/log/BackupPC/LOG reports doing incr backups, manual > > run of /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump shows > __bpc_progress_fileCnt__ > > count up to 164961, and "incr backup complete", but all that exists in > each > > pc/<host> directory is an empty LOG.092024. i put selinux into > permissive > > mode and restarted backupp but the results are still the same. > > > > no errors, just...nothing! what can be amiss? > > > My first guess - and it is just a guess - would be that either the > BackupPC process isn't running as the right user (maybe 'backuppc'), > or the permissions of the files or the directories containing them are > incorrect. Other guesses would be that the configuration isn't quite > like you think it is (are the files being written someplace else? > I've seen that sort of thing when a distribution's maintainer gets a > bit too creative to describe), or that you have a problem with mounts, > but that's getting even deeper into the guesswork. > -- > 73, > Ged. > oops. bingo. softlink at /var/lib/BackupPC was wrong. sorry. works now. chugging along just fine, eg "speedup is 12,129.32" thank you!
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