Does this host have alot of hard links? On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Nick Bright <nick.bri...@valnet.net> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Nick Bright wrote: >>> I've got a bit of a strange situation. My backuppc server, which >>> successfully backs up a half dozen or so machines, is unable to backup >>> one particular host. >>> >>> This host is configured the same as all of my other hosts which backup >>> successfully, but after running the rsync process for 8 to 10 hours, the >>> backup fails with this entry in the XferLOG: >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> full backup started for directory / >>> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root cpanel /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 27778 >>> Got remote protocol 1768191091 >>> Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty >> >> I'm not sure it if causes this symptom, but one thing to check is that >> the remote shell for root can't output anything (like a >> message-of-the-day) before starting the specified program. >> > > Thank you for your reply. I checked in to it, and determined that there > isn't anything being output by logging in to the backuppc system and "su > backuppc" then "ssh r...@cpanel": > > [backu...@backuppc ~]$ ssh r...@cpanel > Last login: Sat Sep 26 16:08:46 2009 from backuppc > r...@cpanel [~]# > > However, I did find that /etc/motd existed and was empty. I deleted it > to see what would happen on the next backup cycle. SSHing into the > client system under a normal user also does not result in any MOTD's or > warning messages. > > - Nick > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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