backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org on 2/21/2014 5:42 PM, wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote at about 12:00:39 +0000 on Thursday, February 20, 2014:
> > Every time I reboot my Ubuntu server, I have to restart the backuppc
> > manually.
> > I figured this must be an Ubuntu packaging problem, something to do
> > with the sysvinit config, but I've checked those out and from my
> > limited knowledge of sysvinit, backuppc appears to have good settings
> > in the appropriate run-levels:
> > 0 - -
> > 1 - K20
> > 2 - S20
> > 3 - S20
> > 4 - S20
> > 5 - S20
> > 6 - -
> > S20 seems a bit early though. Apache for instance has S91.
> > However it could also be an error in the start-up script rather than it
> > not executing at all - for instance I have the backups on a removable
> > USB harddrive, and I am playing with Apache at the moment - could
> > either of those stop backuppc from starting or even logging? I can't
>
> My guess is that the USB drive is the problem.
> On start-up, BackupPC checks to see if hard links can be written to
> TopDir -- which in your case is on the USB drive.
> Then, either because BackupPC starts too early or the USB drive
> takes too long to be recognized and mounted, BackupPC exits on
> start-up.
> The fact that it works now and didn't at other times could just be the
> luck/flakiness of whether the USB mount point is ready before or after
> BackupPC launches.
>
Good point, I shall watch carefully at the next reboot and put in a change
request for those starting values if it happens again.
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