Hi All, I have been using BackupPC for a while now, starting with it running on Fedora in 2007 before switching to Ubuntu LTS. I am using the sudoers method of allow backuppc to access my systems. I'm using rsync transfers from all remote machines and use tar to backup /home on localhost of the archiver. For some unknown reason, it hasn't backed up /home on this machine since 17 Nov. The system seems to be working fine in all other respects.
I have had two remote machines fail and had to replace them entirely with new hardware. The first was a workstation in October, and a server on 31 Dec. I had to regenerate keys for the new machines, but I don't see how that should have impacted the backup of localhost. But the localhost backup stopped at about the time that I was putting the first of the failures back into the system. The system starts the backup and then quits: 2012-01-07 01:00:16 full backup started for directory /home 2012-01-07 01:00:18 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /home) My sudoers file is: ================================================================== # /etc/sudoers -- smbsrvr2 (backuppc server) # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # Defaults env_reset # Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password # %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL # Host alias specification Host_Alias LOCAL = smbsrvr2 # User alias specification # Cmnd alias specification # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL # ---------------- BackupPC Command Authorizations ----------------- # To restore files, uncomment restore cmd and comment backup cmd lines. # Switch them back after restore complete. # # backuppc LOCAL=NOPASSWD: /bin/tar -c *, /bin/tar -x * # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ restore command ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # backuppc LOCAL=NOPASSWD: /bin/tar -c * # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ backup command ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # --------------------- End BackupPC Authorizations ---------------- # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL ==================================================================== My TarClientCmd is: /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C $shareName --totals and my TarClientRestoreCMD is: /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C sudo /bin/tar -x -v -f - -C $shareName --totals I'm generally computer literate, but don't claim to be fluent in Linux. I was able to get this running with quite a bit of help and am not sure where I need to start looking to find the problem. Any suggestions will be gladly received and appreciated. -- ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ 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/