Recently I had to rebuild a backuppc server
I’ve inherited
from previous admin. Running Ubuntu 14.04 server and Backuppc
version 3.2.1
installed from repositories. The backups are stored on a Synology
NAS
(RS3413XS+ running DSM 4.3) which I’ve mounted using NFS.
If I mount the NAS
(mount
<NAS IP>:/volume5/LinuxBackups /var/lib/backuppc) I can see
the backups
on the NAS and can do a “touch test.txt” and modify contents so
permissions
seem ok. And the backuppc web GUI is accessible however I get the
following
error.
Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server
This
CGI script (/backuppc/index.cgi) is unable to connect to the
BackupPC server on
<Servername> port -1.
The error was: unix connect: Connection refused.
Perhaps the BackupPC server is not running or there is a
configuration error.
Please report this to your Sys Admin.
If I try and
unmount the NAS I
get error that mount is in use (makes sense) but when I try and
stop backuppc I
get another error
No process in
pidfile
'/var/run/backuppc/BackupPC.pid' found running; none killed.
If I kill all
backuppc services
then unmount the NAS and restart backuppc service and GUI works
again as
expected.
I have tried
searching the
backuppc documentation and googled fairly extensively however only
hit I turned
up with the above error was someone using a QNAP NAS on which the
firmware had
been updated. Also seeing several pointers to the Backuppc wiki
but this does
seems to only contain a couple of screenshots.....
So my question is –
what is the
correct procedure to mount an external NAS to the
/var/lib/backuppc directory
so that backuppc works as expected? Am I missing something obvious
here?
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