Do you have selinux enabled? I encountered significant challenges getting BackupPC and SELinux to play nice with each other. Check /var/log/audit/audit.log for a report.
The good thing about using my package (the official one from Fedora or COPR) is that it includes policies for backuppc so SELinux doesn't have to be disabled.
Thanks,
Richard
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