Hi, Nick Bright wrote on 2009-11-09 17:57:11 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails after running 8-10 hours]: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > Nick Bright wrote: > >> [...] > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> 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
note the error message here. "stdin: is not a tty". > [...] > 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": It's not output, it's probably an 'stty' or something else that expects its stdin to be a tty. Note that if you try it like you did ("ssh -l root cpanel" without command argument), that's not the same as BackupPC is doing. stdin *will* be a tty in this case, so you won't get the error. You should try something like "ssh -l root cpanel /bin/true" instead. The reason it is working with tar is probably just that the tar XferMethod is less strict about its input. rsync *needs* to agree on a protocol version first and then speak that protocol (which doesn't accomodate for arbitrary garbage in the protocol stream). tar just parses messages and treats everything it doesn't recognize as an error message. You could look at your error counts and the XferLOG error messages to confirm that. I would encourage you to find the problem and switch back to rsync (if that is what you had first planned on using). Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/