Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty hosts status page after server move


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wbppc AT parplies DOT de]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:57 PM
> To: David Nalley
> Cc: General list for user discussion, questions and support
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Empty hosts status page after server
move
> 
> Hi,
> 
> David Nalley wrote on 2009-05-19 14:08:15 -0400 [[BackupPC-users]
Empty hosts
> status page after server move]:
> > I recently 'puppetized' my BackupPC config and moved from hosting it
on
> > physical hardware to hosting it on a vm and also moved from CentOS
5.x
> > to Fedora, both are on BackupPC 3.1.0 and I have backup storage
> > available via a SAN, so I merely remounted that on the new box.
> > Everything seems to work great for the most part except that the
'host
> > status' page shows that no backups have occurred for any of my
hosts,
> > despite the fact that many of them have been running and
successfully
> > completed. Even the individual host pages show zero backups. Having
> > copied configs and staying on the same version of BackupPC I find
this a
> > bit odd. I have googled around, but don't see any similar results.
> > Anyone have ideas of where to begin looking?
> 
> does the backuppc user have the same UID on the new system as it did
on the
> old one? If not, changing the UID in /etc/passwd (and chown()ing any
local
> files the backuppc user might own) is likely to be significantly
faster than
> chown()ing the whole pool, aside from the fact that it would allow you
to
> continue to access the pool from both old and new system (don't do
this
> simultaneously, though).
> 
> Regards,
> Holger

I had already recursively chowned the entire TopDir to the new user, so
the pool should be completely available to the new user. 

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