I noticed that BackupPC would not start and gave a very cryptic message:

BackupPC cannot be started because important parameters are missing from 
config.pl.
If you just upgraded BackupPC, please update /etc/backuppc/config.pl.

I noticed in the init script there is a grep for IncrLevel.  If it's 
missing BackupPC will not start.  Since v4 is using reverse deltas there 
isn't a need for this, is there? (The setting is missing from v4 
documentation.)

Is this a hold-over from v2 to v3 upgrade?

For expediency I removed the check from my init script.

check_old_config()
{
     BAD=0
     CONF=/etc/backuppc/config.pl

     grep -q IncrLevel $CONF || BAD=1

     if [ "$BAD" = "1" ]; then
         echo "BackupPC cannot be started because important parameters 
are missing from config.pl."
         echo "If you just upgraded BackupPC, please update 
/etc/backuppc/config.pl."
         exit 1
     fi
}


Cheers!

mph


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