Moritz Lennert writes:

> Trying to use backuppc 2.1.2 between two Debian machines to back up two
> directories, I get the following error, which I don't really understand.
> The backup seems to be done correctly (I can see files that were created
> the day before), but it seems to run a full backup every day because of
> this error:
> 
> Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/geog-pc40.ulb.ac.be/XferLOG.0.z,
> modified 2006-06-14 03:29:29 (Extracting only Errors)
> 
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -C -x -n -l root geog-pc40.ulb.ac.be /bin/tar
> -c -v -f - -C / --totals ./home/mlennert/ULB ./home/mlennert/Maildir
> Xfer PIDs are now 7840,7839
> [ skipped 12582 lines ]
> Nombre total d'octets écrits: 5137561600 (4,8GiB, 704KiB/s)
> [ skipped 34 lines ]
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 11608 filesExist, 5109993955 sizeExist,
> 3674472321 sizeExistComp, 11768 filesTotal, 5124180910 sizeTotal
> Got fatal error during xfer (Nombre total d'octets écrits: 5137561600
> (4,8GiB, 704KiB/s))
> Backup aborted (Nombre total d'octets écrits: 5137561600 (4,8GiB, 704KiB/s))

BackupPC's tar transport is looking for the English version of
the number of bytes output by tar (from the --totals option).
Since it doesn't see that it assumes the transfer failed.

Look at the archives to see how to set the language to English
in the tar client command.

Craig

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