Hi,
I've got Backuppc working just fine here, for most of my hosts. But I'm
still seeing problems with a couple, and am wondering if others have
experienced these. All of these use "rsync" for the transfer type, and
they're all various flavors of Linux.
First of all, I recently upgraded one host to Ubuntu Edgy Eft, and now
Rsync is failing. It gets through the first directory to back up (/etc)
with two non-fatal errors:
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root denali.freelock.lan /usr/bin/rsync
> --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links
> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /etc/
> Xfer PIDs are now 25464
> Got remote protocol 29
> Xfer PIDs are now 25464,25472
> [ skipped 26 lines ]
> Unexpected call BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO->unlink(init.d/stop-bootlogd)
> Unexpected call BackupPC::Xfer::RsyncFileIO->unlink(localtime)
> [ skipped 1040 lines ]
> Done: 691 files, 117772879 bytes
... both of these files still exist, but were updated with the system
upgrade. Anything to worry about? The next directory, /home, fails
completely:
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root denali.freelock.lan /usr/bin/rsync
> --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links
> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /home/
> Xfer PIDs are now 25475
> Got remote protocol 29
> fileListReceive() failed
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
> Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
I can log into the host with the command above. I can also get a full
file list using "rsync -avne ssh denali.freelock.lan:/home/ ." Anybody
seen this before? /home was pretty much left alone during the system
upgrade--I don't know of anything substantial that would've changed
here, other than the rsync binary itself (now 2.6.8 on the remote host,
2.6.6 on the backuppc host).
The other failure is backing up an older Mandrake 10.1 box, and this is
only when I try to exclude directories. I've tried specifying this in
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} and $Conf{RsyncArgs} with various formats.
When I do this, all the other hosts work fine, but this Mandrake box
reports:
> rsync: Error parsing options: option may be supported on client but
> not on server?
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1064)
The rsync version on this host is 2.6.3pre1. I can do a normal Rsync to
or from this host passing an --exclude= switch and it works just fine,
but when I use the "Running" line as listed on the XferLOG, I see the
same error. Nothing gets backed up...
Any insight into either of these?
Thanks,
--
John Locke
"Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems"
published by Charles River Media, June 2004
http://www.freelock.com
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