You could also modify the /etc/passwd files to manually configure the uid/gid to match the old system....
Too late now, but there is usually more than one way to solve a problem. Regards Adam On 24 November 2025 9:06:26 am AEDT, Kenneth Porter <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm migrating from CentOS (an RHEL clone) to Debian. I moved my external >BackupPC drive to it (mounted at /var/lib/BackupPC) and copied the >/etc/BackupPC directory over. (I actually keep that directory on the root of >the external drive and mount it when the rest of the drive is mounted, so the >config stays with the drive.) > >The first issue I ran into was needing to rename the BackupPC directories to >backuppc, all lowercase. A couple of symlinks took care of that. > >I then chowned all the directories to backuppc:www-data. Doing that for the >external drive took over a day. There's got to be a better way for Linux to >handle removable media with millions of files. I'd read that bindfs can change >the effective owner of a drive but it's a FUSE filesystem so there's a >performance cost. > >The trickiest bit was that BackupPC was ignoring my per-host configs in >/etc/BackupPC/pc. Digging into the code, I found that Text.pm had been patched >(by the Debian packager?) to not look there. It disables useFHS and then >removes the line to fall back to looking in the pc subdirectory. Why? > >Now I have my backups working again. > > > >_______________________________________________ >BackupPC-users mailing list >[email protected] >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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