Steve wrote at about 23:51:11 -0400 on Monday, April 29, 2013:
 > I'd run out of time and decided it must be a filesystem problem and I would 
 > look at it more tomorrow.
 > 
 > However...
 > 
 > # ls -l /var/lib/BackupPC
 > drwxr-x---. 18  495 root  4096 Mar 18 06:00 cpool
 > -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   145 Mar 19 22:00 extlinux.conf
 > -r--r--r--.  1 root root 32768 Mar 19 22:00 ldlinux.sys
 > drwx------.  2 root root 16384 Jul 16  2008 lost+found
 > -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 60928 Mar 19 22:00 menu.c32
 > drwxr-x---.  5  495 root  4096 Mar 17 19:31 pc
 > drwxr-x---.  2  495 root  4096 Jul 26  2008 pool
 > -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   145 Mar 19 22:00 syslinux.cfg
 > drwxr-x---.  2  495 root  4096 Mar 18 06:00 trash
 > -rw-r--r--.  1 root root     0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnfilel.txt
 > -rw-r--r--.  1 root root     0 Mar 19 22:00 ubnpathl.txt
 > 
 > Hmmm... there is no user 495. Perhaps that was the backuppc user on my old 
 > system.
 > Do cpool, pc etc have to be owned by backuppc?

BINGO.
The program is run as user 'backuppc' so the data must be
readable/writeable by user backuppc.

you need to do something like:

chown -R backuppc pc cpool pool trash

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