I have had an instance of Backuppc running on Ubuntu for years but have
run into a problem which I cannot solve. I had a hardware problem with
my mdadm RAID6 array which I resolved but I've been unable to restart
backuppc.service since. All the other services start fine but I get the
"Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server" when I look for the Host
Summary page.
The current config is Backuppc 4.4.0 on Ubuntu 22.04.05LTS. The system
disks are RAID1 and the RAID6 array is for /var/lib/backuppc/ So the
hardware problem with the RAID6 array was unrelated to the system files.
The systemctl status is
× backuppc.service - BackupPC server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/backuppc.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2025-03-28 17:03:11
GMT; 1min 53s ago
Process: 109479 ExecStart=/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC
(code=exited, status=2)
Main PID: 109479 (code=exited, status=2)
CPU: 94ms
Mar 28 17:03:11 backuppc systemd[1]: backuppc.service: Scheduled restart
job, restart counter is at 9.
Mar 28 17:03:11 backuppc systemd[1]: Stopped BackupPC server.
Mar 28 17:03:11 backuppc systemd[1]: backuppc.service: Start request
repeated too quickly.
Mar 28 17:03:11 backuppc systemd[1]: backuppc.service: Failed with
result 'exit-code'.
Mar 28 17:03:11 backuppc systemd[1]: Failed to start BackupPC server.
I've tried a few changes - e.g. to the
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/backuppc.service RestartSec
value but they made no difference so they have all been reverted to the
previous (and longstanding) working configuration.
Grateful for any help. The RAID6 array is at 90% - which is another
issue for me to address - but that has never previously stopped the
backuppc service running, so I think, irrelevant.
thanks, George
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