Nate Carlson wrote: > I'm attempting to back up some files off Akamai Netstorage (a remote > fileshare > similar to EC2), which has a rsync-over-ssh interface. They support protocol > version 29, and rsync 2.6.6. It appears that File::RsyncP only supports > protocol version 28, and something is going wonky. Here's the output of the > log: > > "full backup started for directory / > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -C -q -i /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/id_dsa_akamai -x -l > sshacs <host> /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner > --group --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . / > Xfer PIDs are now 23993 > Got remote protocol 29 > Negotiated protocol version 28 > Remote[98]: n > <junk>" > > <junk> appears to be a list of the files, with ugly binary breaks between -- > I'm guessing it's the raw dump of the protocol list as rsync sends it. I > suspect a problem on Akamai's implementation with the way that it negotiates > protocol 28. > > First of all - is there a version of File::RsyncP that supports protocol > version 29? > > If not - is it possible to configure BackupPC to use rsync itself instead of > using the Perl modules? Or is that a hard requirement for BackupPC? > > Appreciate any thoughts - thanks!
Considering how cheap disk space is, the easy approach is probably to update a full copy locally with a stock rsync, then let backuppc back that up to keep a history. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ 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/