I've been unable to back up one of my systems for the past several months and am out of ideas for troubleshooting it. I have BackupPC 4.1.5 running on a Fedora 26 system. It successfully backs up five other systems, so I am apparently not having a general problem with BackupPC on my backup server.
This is what I see in the LOG file for the failing host after I attempt triggering a backup manually: 2018-01-21 00:28:38 Renaming /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/athena/XferLOG.687.z -> /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/athena/XferLOG.687.z.tmp 2018-01-21 00:28:39 full backup started for directory / 2018-01-21 00:40:39 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /) 2018-01-21 00:40:44 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /) In Errors, under Xfer Error Summary, I see this: XferLOG file /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/athena/XferLOG.687.z created 2018-01-21 00:28:39 Backup prep: type = full, case = 6, inPlace = 1, doDuplicate = 0, newBkupNum = 687, newBkupIdx = 10, lastBkupNum = , lastBkupIdx = (FillCycle = 0, noFillCnt = 1) Running: /usr/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /var/lib/BackupPC/ --bpc-host-name athena --bpc-share-name / --bpc-bkup-num 687 --bpc-bkup-comp 3 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1 --bpc-bkup-inode0 375732 --bpc-attrib-new --bpc-log-level 1 -e /usr/bin/ssh\ -l\ root --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync --super --recursive --protect-args --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --times --links --hard-links --delete --delete-excluded --one-file-system --partial --log-format=log:\ %o\ %i\ %B\ %8U,%8G\ %9l\ %f%L --stats --checksum --timeout=72000 --include=/etc --include=/var --include=/home --include=/boot --include=/boot/grub --include=/boot/grub/grub.conf --include=/root --exclude=/\* --exclude=/boot/\* --exclude=/boot/grub/\* --exclude=/var/cache --exclude=/var/lock --exclude=/var/run --exclude=/home/uckelman/.gvfs --exclude=/home/liana/.gvfs athena:/ / full backup started for directory / Xfer PIDs are now 29288 This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/bin/rsync_bpc Xfer PIDs are now 29288,29290 xferPids 29288,29290 G bpc_fileOpen: can't open file /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/athena/687/f%2f/fhome/fliana/f.cache/fksycoca5 (from home/liana/.cache/ksycoca5, 3, 0, 0) rsync_bpc: failed to open "/home/liana/.cache/ksycoca5", continuing: No such file or directory (2) [ skipped 113 lines ] file has vanished: "/home/liana/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-541c997f.log" [ skipped 53 lines ] file has vanished: "/home/liana/windows/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5/2TJ3MKOV/=ns-97887206_1251557233,1138a6119b01da5,IT_Enterprise_Exchange,;;kw=;dcopt=ist;tile=1;ord1=830214;sz=728x90;contx=IT_Enterprise_Exchange;btg=;ord=1073363542692100[1]" IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion R bpc_fileOpen: can't open file /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/athena/687/f%2f/fhome/fliana/fwindows/fAppData/fLocal/fMicrosoft/fWindows/fTemporary Internet Files/fContent.IE5/f2TJ3MKOV/f=ns-97887206_1251557233,1138a6119b01da5,IT_Enterprise_Exchange,;;kw=;dcopt=ist;tile=1;ord1=830214;sz=728x90;contx=IT_Enterprise_Exchange;btg=;ord=1073363542692100[1] (from home/liana/windows/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5/2TJ3MKOV/=ns-97887206_1251557233,1138a6119b01da5,IT_Enterprise_Exchange,;;kw=;dcopt=ist;tile=1;ord1=830214;sz=728x90;contx=IT_Enterprise_Exchange;btg=;ord=1073363542692100[1], 3, 0, 0) [ skipped 248 lines ] rsync_bpc: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 308 bytes to message fd [receiver]: Broken pipe (32) Done: 1 errors, 8 filesExist, 48913 sizeExist, 18388 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal, 46 filesNew, 63072075 sizeNew, 15060567 sizeNewComp, 375787 inode rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1556) [receiver=3.0.9.11] rsync_bpc exited with fatal status 0 (139) (rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1556) [receiver=3.0.9.11]) [ skipped 32 lines ] Xfer PIDs are now Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /) Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /) BackupFailCleanup: nFilesTotal = 0, type = full, BackupCase = 6, inPlace = 1, lastBkupNum = BackupFailCleanup: inPlace with no new files... no cleanup Running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -h athena -f on athena Xfer PIDs are now 29364 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: athena #687 inodeLast set to 378393 (was 375731) BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host athena got 0 errors (took 35 secs) Xfer PIDs are now Finished BackupPC_refCountUpdate (running time: 35 sec) Xfer PIDs are now Can anyone suggest what's causing the backup to fail or how I could further troubleshoot? -- J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
