Just to let you all know, on monday one of my client machines (FC3)
performed an automated yum update and updated the rsync rpm to version
2.6.7-1.1.fc3.rf (provided by the Dag repository). Immediately after
this the next (and all subsequent) backups failed to complete with the
'FileListRecieved failed' error. This version of rsync uses protcol
version 29.
I made some changes to the client config so that $Conf{RsyncShareName}
changed from '/' to a list of each of the directories under '/' that I
wanted backing up. It subsequently failed on /home (the biggest
directory & >2GB in size). Removing /home from the list meant that it
completed all the other directories.
Removing /home permanently is not an option, and using individual share
names for each directory under '/' and under '/home' is not ideal (what
happens when the user creates a new directory under '/' or when a new
user account is added - it won't get automatically backed up). So I
needed to go back to backing up '/'. I fixed the problem by reverting to
an older version of rsync (version 2.6.3 protocol version 28). Here are
the steps for anyone interested:
1. Remove the current rsync package:
rpm -e --nodeps rsync
2. Check what other versions of rsync are available:
yum --disablerepo=dag list rsync
If you are happy with the version listed (and the repository it comes
from) then goto step 3, if not add another --disablerepo to remove the
repository that supplies the version listed by the command above.
3. Install the version from another repository:
yum --disablerepo=dag install rsync
In my case all now appears to be going smoothly.
In the long run I should either disable these repositories, or only
allow them to update packages that were explicitly obtained from them.
I do have a question: does anyone know what the rsync options --server
and --sender do? I can't find them documented anywhere.
Hope that's of some use to the list
Dylan
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