Craig Barratt wrote:
> 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.
That was it ! Adding LANG=C in front of $tarPath in $Conf{TarClientCmd}
did the trick.
Thanks !
Moritz
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