hi, Rsync does not want any thing to be echoed back when ssh to client from root's .bashrc file.
as a test from the backuppc server try this as user backuppc: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls anaconda-ks.cfg Desktop install.log install.log.syslog mail Mail results should be list of files in root's home area on clientname I added echo $PATH to root's .bashrc on clientname and now get this: /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin anaconda-ks.cfg Desktop install.log install.log.syslog mail Mail this will cause rsync to fail Just comment out any echo lines in root's .bashrc or in your case lines that are trying to set the display. Mark Mark Adams wrote: > A Google search indicates that this may be a problem with rsync, but I > can't find anything more specific and I don't know enough about rsync > over ssh or backuppc to know where to start troubleshooting. Can someone > please enlighten me? > > I would really appreciate it. > > Here is the log file from a failed transaction: > > ================================================= > > Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<client>/XferLOG.bad, modified > 2008-12-02 02:45:52 (Extracting only Errors) > > full backup started for directory / > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root <client> /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 31565 > Got remote protocol 1936926730 > Fatal error (bad version): (ssh-askpass:31566): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot > open display: localhost:10.0 > > Checksum seed is 1935748456 > Got checksumSeed 0x73612d68 > Sent include: /mnt > Sent include: /mnt/<client> > Sent include: /mnt/<client>/images > Sent include: /mnt/<client>/photos > Sent exclude: /* > Sent exclude: /mnt/* > Sent exclude: /mnt/<client>/* > Read EOF: Tried again: got 0 bytes > fileListReceive() failed > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes > Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) > Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) > Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the > prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) > -- Mark Maciolek Network Administrator Morse Hall 339 862-3050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.sr.unh.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/