[ I have also posted this to the low-traffic BackupPC-Users list, but wanted a broader look ]
I'm replacing the very old computer that has run as my local BackupPC server, and want to retain the server's data pool (i.e., all the existing backups).
The old server wrote its data (including its log files) to a network storage appliance via NFS mount. I have set up the new machine (Fedora 39, same as the old one) and copied over all the backuppc server and host config files, and mounted the NFS filesystem containing the old backups. The NFS mount is set up properly on the new hardware--'backuppc' user can write to the data pool.
Seems like this should be simple...
The new BackupPC server starts up--I can see it in process listing; httpd web server is working as well. I get prompted to log in to the server admin page as expected, then get the following httpd "503" error:
"Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."da
The BackupPC log files don't show any activity, nor does journalctl.
I do, however, see this in the httpd error_log:
[Tue Feb 20 06:36:00.553934 2024] [cgid:error] [pid 2519:tid 2670] (13)Permission denied: [client ::1:43404] AH01257: stderr from /usr/libexec/BackupPC/BackupPC_Admin: unable to connect to cgi daemon after multiple tries
Can anyone explain this, and suggest a fix? My first thought was noting UID/GID differences for the 'backuppc' user account on the two servers, but fixing that did not solve the problem.
Thanks.