May I suggest to create virtual containers with LXC?
Proxmox, which is based on debian makes this very easy.

Since the containers are separated from each other, you don’t need to do any 
kind of config file hacking.

> Am 22.02.2016 um 16:21 schrieb Alessandro Polverini <alex AT polverini DOT 
> org>:
> 
> Hello,
> I would like to use backuppc for some of my servers and I would like to 
> have separate physical disks with different instances of backuppc running.
> 
> I'm using debian, I tried to create a different set of config files and 
> hack the init.d file, but I was unable to run a second instance: does 
> someone have some hints to reach that goal?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
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