Please disregard my message.
Turns out I still had bad permissions under $topdir/pc/* and
that affected reading the $topdir/pc/some.machine.tld/backups
file.

-A

On 2009-12-20 at 21:39:10 -0800, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
> My BackupPC server contains a 80 GB system drive that contains
> Ubuntu the BackupPC software, etc... It also has a 2 TB array
> of drives that hold the actual backed up data.
> 
> The system drive crashed a few days ago.  I replaced it, and
> reinstalled Ubuntu and BackupPC.
> 
> After reinstalling, I went into my storage array and located
> the last backup of 'localhost'.  I copied all the files from
> etc/backuppc to their correct location on my system disk.
> (Including renaming them all from fwhatever to whatever.)
> 
> I set the correct permissions and started BackupPC.
> The web interface shows the correct storage pool location
> and all the PCs that it used to backup....but it does not show
> the backup history before the crash.
> 
> How can I get BackupPC to recognize the storage pool along
> with all the backups from before the crash?
> 
> As luck would have it, I need to do a large restore... ;)
> 
> -A

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