I am changing the thread as it appears that my problem may be due to an SSH config problem. The original problem is that BackupPC can't backup itself but it will backup Windows computer for the most part.
I created a custom config file by coping the standard config file over to one that was named. I looked in the file and the options seem to be correct?? The contents of the log are shown below but based on y'all's help, it appears that SSH may not be setup correctly. I have to confess I have never messed with SSH and don't know the first thing about it. I saw it referenced somewhere but ignored it thinking it was not needed when a computer accessed itself. Contents of file /home/backuppc/pc/machine2/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2007-02-09 05:00:03 full backup started for directory / Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root machine2 /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . / Xfer PIDs are now 19768 Got remote protocol 1651076184 Fatal error (bad version): Xlib: connection to ":2.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Here is the problem: when ssh is run this error message is returned: Xlib: connection to ":2.0" refused by server In the end, I am in over my head on SSH and the x port forwarding. Can anyone help? Thanks! Arch -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arch Willingham Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 4:35 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] fileListReceive failed Oops...sorry: BackupPC is version 3.0 and RsyncP is 0.68 Arch -----Original Message----- From: Craig Barratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:07 AM To: Arch Willingham Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] fileListReceive failed Arch writes: > I am brand new at using BackupPc. It took a while to figure it out but I > think I was able to get it to back up a Windows machine last night. > > For the heck of it, I told it (the Linux box that runs BackupPC - runs Fedora > FC6) to backup itself. I made a custom config.pl and set $Conf{XferMethod} = > 'rsync'. This morning, it has this error called "fileListReceive failed". > This log file says this: > > 2007-02-06 16:40:22 full backup started for directory / > 2007-02-06 16:40:23 Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) > 2007-02-06 16:40:28 Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) > > I read through the help file as well as googled the error but can't find the > fix. Like I said in another post, I don't know a lot about Linux...just > tryign to learn. You didn't say what version of BackupPC and File::RsyncP you were using. If BackupPC is < 3.0.0 or File::RsyncP < 0.68 then you should replace --devices with -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs} and $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/