Bloody hell. Stupid is as stupid does.  Forgot to copy new init script over. <Grumbling begins here>

mph,

Yes, that appears to be an old init.d script.  And, yes, IncrLevel is no longer present in 4.0.0.

None of the recent 3.x.x or 4.0.0 init.d scripts include that code.

Craig

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Michael Huntley <michael AT huntley DOT net> wrote:

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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