[BackupPC-users] backup of windows 2003 .bkf files
Hello List,
I'm running into problems when trying to backup .bkf files from windows2003
backup. My
normal backups are running fine. I'm using rsync over ssh for backups of our
linux boxes
and samba for our windows boxes.
I didn't change anything about the samba config in the general config.pl.
This is with a clean pool and new host.
The current config.pl for the problem host:
$Conf{SmbShareName} = ['BACKUP$','thesitemachine'];
$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = '';
$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = '';
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
$Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} = 10;
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
{
hourBegin => 9.0,
hourEnd => 23.9,
weekDays => [0,1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6],
},
];
the error I'm getting in the XferLOG:
tarmode is now full, system, hidden, noreset, verbose
tarExtract: mkdir /home/backuppc/pc/192.168.0.4/new/fBACKUP$/f�e�
�w�e�b� �s�o�u�s�
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File exists at /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract line 498
create 644 0/0 8589934592 db.bak
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�3�1�.�1�0�.�2�0�0�4�
tarExtract: �
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�m�a�x�.� �d�e�
�r�é�c�e�p�t�i/: checksum error at
create 0 0/0 0 �0�0�3� �-�
�3�1�.�1�0�.�2�0�0�4�
tarExtract: �
tarExtract: �N�E�T� �-�
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tarExtract: �
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checksum error at
tarExtract: Unable to read attribute file
/home/backuppc/pc/192.168.0.4/new/fBACKUP$/f�e�
�w�e�b� �s�o�u�s�
�E�D�P�n�e�t�
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�-�
�N�e�u�t�r�i�n�o�+�0�E�ÃÊ��¤S
�,½��>`�����cpÏ�5"�����0'���/attrib
Error writing to tar file - Connection reset by peer
Didn't get entire file. size=9553325568, nread=327088
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share BACKUP$)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share BACKUP$)
any pointers or help is greatly appreciated,
thanks,
Bart
Bart van Daal
Network Operations
Van Landeghemstraat 20
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/18/2007 10:30:32 AM: > Exactly what line should I add to my config.pl to set the pool to /mnt/sdb1/ ? The short answer is, you don't. In 3.0, there is a way of doing it. In 2.x, it's hard-coded. However, there's a much easier way: just replace /var/lib/backuppc with a symlink. If you truly do not want the old pool, you can do it this way (WARNING: this will wipe out your pool!): rm -rf /var/lib/backuppc ln -s /mnt/sdb1 /var/lib/backuppc chown backuppc:backuppc /var/lib/backuppc chmod 750 /var/lib/backuppc Tim Massey - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Syntax error?
I'm getting: - charles (Can't read PC's config file: Couldn't
execute /var/lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl: syntax error at /var/
lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl line 4, near "$Conf")
with this config file:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/Volumes', '/Network', '/automount'];
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backups $host nice -n 19
sudo /Users/backups/rsyncSend $argList+';
$Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} = 0;
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
{
hourBegin => 7.0,
hourEnd => 19.5,
weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
},
];
I don't see anything wrong with it?
Thanks in advance,
James
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[BackupPC-users] Simple question
Hi list, I know this may be a stupid question, but i did not find the answer by myself. I want to define the pool on a secondary and large harddrive, instead on /var/lib/ The server is recently installed so there is no problem about old backups to keep. Exactly what line should I add to my config.pl to set the pool to /mnt/sdb1/ ? Thanks in advance for any help Jorge - Saca tu propia cuenta de email gratis en Colombia entrando a http://mail.conexcol.com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] hosts with multiple IP addresses.
Dear BackupPC users, I'm currently evaluating backupPC for my org. Looking promising so far. I have some systems (laptops) which may appear on my network under a variety of IP ranges. I use sticky DHCP, so, for example, laptop-A.N.Other | |__wired MAC = AB:CD:EF-> IP = A.B.C.D | |__wireless MAC = AD:CD:GH -> IP = A.B.E.F * *__VPN through radius -> IP = A.B.G.H I can write a little TCP service which checks whether rsyncd is listening on any of the above IPs and return the one with highest preference (wired/wlan/vpn), for each particular host. My systems do not respond to ping. However i'm not sure about the correct config to acheive this. NmbLookupCmd expects an IP to resolve to a hostname. How do I configure backupPC to have a host, and resolve an IP? Many thanks Rob - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] Backup with Rsync doesn´t work
Hi,
I want to use Rsync, but it doesn´t work and I don´t know what it could be.
Backuping with tar works fine. SSH Connection works too. Only Rsync makes
problems.
My host config file is this:
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync';
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -n -l backuppc $host nice -n 19 sudo
$rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/home/backuppc';
And when I want to backup I get the following error LOG:
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l backuppc 192.168.0.11 nice -n 19 sudo
/usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group
--devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times .
/home/backuppc/ Xfer PIDs are now 12316 Got remote protocol 1936941392 Fatal
error (bad version): Password:
Read EOF:
Tried again: got 0 bytes
fileListReceive() failed
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted
(fileListReceive failed)
Greets
Simon Köstlin
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Proper way to schedule Archive jobs
Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/15/2007 01:44:26 AM: > Tim writes: > > > Is there a way to launch an archive on a regular basis where the jobs > > are recorded and managed within BackupPC? > > The proper way to do it is to create an archive request file (see the > CGI code to see how to do that) and to use BackupPC_serverMesg to send > an archive request (again, see the CGI code to see how to do that) to > BackupPC. BackupPC will then run the archive and keep the log information > about what it did. Cool. I will check it out. Tim Massey - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.
Les Mikesell wrote: > Timothy J. Massey wrote: >> Again, I ask everyone: does anyone have a better solution? I have >> heard only two solutions to the off-site storage issue. 1) Do an >> archive to some sort of removable media. Given the storage >> requirements, I don't see how it could be anything *other* than a hard >> drive. If you were going to spend four figures to buy a big enough tape >> library, wouldn't you use it for backup directly? Or 2) create some >> sort of RAID-1 configuration and break it regularly to swap out a drive >> and store it off-site. Someone even recommended a 3-drive RAID-1, so >> the data stays redundant, but you can still break the array. It doesn't >> change the workload on the array, however... >> > > If you have a suitable offsite location with enough internet bandwidth, the > low-maintenance way is to throw a vpn between sites and let an independent > instance of backuppc run from there, backing up the same targets. You > might need to make the initial copy on the local LAN or perhaps add each > new target on a Friday and let it run through the weekend to get started. > When I was using BackupPC, I used "file_sync" (part of BackupPCd) to do a byte-level mirror (rsync-like) everynight from the BackupPC machine to the offiste mirror. My BackupPC array was 1TB. -- Roy Keene (Contractor) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] CGI scripts to manage removable hard drive media.
Timothy J. Massey wrote: > "Roy Keene (Contractor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/16/2007 > 02:38:06 PM: > > > When I was using BackupPC, I used "file_sync" (part of BackupPCd) to > do a > > byte-level mirror (rsync-like) everynight from the BackupPC machine > to the > > offiste mirror. > > Is this the same file_sync from OpenSync (http://www.opensync.org/) or > something else? I did a google for BackuuPCd and came up with what I > imagine is your site (http://www.rkeene.org/oss/backuppcd/). I > downloaded both listed tars, but could not find file_sync in them. The > only logical reference I could come for file_sync was the OpenSync site > above. > > Is BackupPCd a supported client for BackupPC? > > Tim Massey > That is my site. $ tar -ztvf backuppcd-200603161528.tar.gz ... -rw-r--r-- rkeene/users 10783 2006-03-11 11:11 backuppcd-200603161528/tools/file_sync.c BackupPCd is still in progress, and not recommended for production use (though I have used it for such in the past). -- Roy Keene (Contractor) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] backup of windows 2003 .bkf files
>
> Hello List,
>
> I'm running into problems when trying to backup .bkf files from windows2003
> backup. My
> normal backups are running fine. I'm using rsync over ssh for backups of our
> linux boxes
> and samba for our windows boxes.
>
> I didn't change anything about the samba config in the general config.pl.
>
>
> This is with a clean pool and new host.
> The current config.pl for the problem host:
>
> $Conf{SmbShareName} = ['BACKUP$','thesitemachine'];
> $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = '';
> $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = '';
> $Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;
>
> $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} = 10;
> $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
> {
> hourBegin => 9.0,
> hourEnd => 23.9,
> weekDays => [0,1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6],
> },
> ];
Looks like you need to set the XferMethod. Add this to the host .pl file:
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
Bryan
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[BackupPC-users] Backup with Rsync doesn´t work
Hi,
I want to use Rsync, but it doesn´t work and I don´t know what it could be.
Backuping with tar works fine. SSH Connection works too. Only Rsync makes
problems.
My host config file is this:
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync';
$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -n -l backuppc $host nice -n 19 sudo
$rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/home/backuppc';
And when I want to backup I get the following error LOG:
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l backuppc 192.168.0.11 nice -n 19 sudo
/usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group
--devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times .
/home/backuppc/ Xfer PIDs are now 12316 Got remote protocol 1936941392 Fatal
error (bad version): Password:
Read EOF:
Tried again: got 0 bytes
fileListReceive() failed
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted
(fileListReceive failed)
Greets
Simon Köstlin
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Re: [BackupPC-users] tar error 256
- Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip...] > > What version of tar are you using? Torsten reported that the > newest version has changed the exit status in the case of > certain relatively benign warnings that are therefore considerd > fatal by BackupPC. Both client and server are running GNU tar 1.16-2 from Debian/Sid. > Could you also look through the XferLOG file and confirm that > it is this same warning that tar is reporting? It is confirmed. It said two files (/var/log/auth.log and /var/log/syslog) were being changed as they were being written...As well as /archive/mp3, which shouldn't be changing, and looks unchanged... --b - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup with Rsync doesn't work
Hi, Simon K?stlin wrote on 18.01.2007 at 20:14:12 [[BackupPC-users] Backup with Rsync doesn?t work]: > [...] please use normal ASCII quotes, not \xb4s or \264s as they're quite ugly to read. And one copy of your posting is usually enough too ;-). > And when I want to backup I get the following error LOG: > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l backuppc 192.168.0.11 nice -n 19 sudo > /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group > --devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . > /home/backuppc/ Xfer PIDs are now 12316 Got remote protocol 1936941392 Fatal > error (bad version): Password: ^ Either ssh or (more probably) sudo is asking you for a password. I doubt you simply exchanged tar for rsync. Did you maybe add the 'sudo' and forget the NOPASSWD flag in sudoers? Regards, Holger - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple question
Hi, Timothy J. Massey wrote on 18.01.2007 at 11:15:18 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Simple question]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/18/2007 > 10:30:32 AM: interesting attribution ;-). > > Exactly what line should I add to my config.pl to set the pool to > /mnt/sdb1/ ? > > The short answer is, you don't. > [...] > just replace /var/lib/backuppc with a symlink. Or, of course, either - mount your partition on /var/lib/backuppc (which must then be a directory, as it currently is anyway; strictly speaking you don't even need to remove your old pool, you can mount your new partition right over it - I would not recommend that though, as it is bound to lead to confusion and waste space) instead of on /mnt/sdb1 . As you appear to be using a full partition, this is the most straightforward approach, unless you have some good reason to actually need it mounted on /mnt/sdb1. - bind mount /mnt/sdb1 on /var/lib/backuppc . This would be a way to go if you had other things on the same partition and only wanted to use a sub- directory as TOPDIR (eg. /mnt/sdb1/backuppc - you'd then obviously bind mount /mnt/sdb1/backuppc on /var/lib/backuppc). > chown backuppc:backuppc /var/lib/backuppc > chmod 750 /var/lib/backuppc These two also apply in both cases. Regards, Holger - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax error?
James Ward wrote:
> I'm getting: - charles (Can't read PC's config file: Couldn't
> execute /var/lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl: syntax error at /var/
> lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl line 4, near "$Conf")
>
> with this config file:
>
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/Volumes', '/Network', '/automount'];
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l backups $host nice -n 19
> sudo /Users/backups/rsyncSend $argList+';
> $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} = 0;
> $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
> {
> hourBegin => 7.0,
> hourEnd => 19.5,
> weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
>},
> ];
>
> I don't see anything wrong with it?
>
>
hmmm.it all looks right.
i assume its just word wrapped and the line above starting with sudo
belongs at the end of line 2? If it sees the sudo line as a separate
line then thats where the problem is.
check the file for proper carriage returns (in vi do a :set list) and
make sure it doesn't have control M's (dos2unix).
one other thingchange the order of lines when troubleshooting. move
them around and watch the errors and see if they change line numbers.
Often an error is in an earlier line but syntax checks only hit the
later lines.
Good Luck,
Regards,
Les
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax error?
Hi,
Les Stott wrote on 19.01.2007 at 11:27:56 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax error?]:
> [...]
> hmmm.it all looks right.
that I agree with, but ...
> i assume its just word wrapped and the line above starting with sudo
> belongs at the end of line 2? If it sees the sudo line as a separate
> line then thats where the problem is.
Nope, it's within single quotes, and they're allowed to contain multiple
lines (in fact, that holds for all forms of quoting in Perl). In fact, you
can insert line breaks anywhere whitespace is allowed, because a newline
counts as whitespace.
$Conf
{XferMethod} # you can even comment individual lines
=
'smb'
;
looks ugly, but is perfectly valid. Perhaps you were thinking of TCL, where
the matter of line breaks (and especially comments) is a real pain?
That 'ssh' or 'nice' might choke on the embedded \n in the string is a
different matter.
> check the file for proper carriage returns (in vi do a :set list) and
> make sure it doesn't have control M's (dos2unix).
Perl supports \r\n line breaks, which is (outside of strings ;-) really only
another instance of the above rule: blanks, newlines, returns, even form feeds
- it's all just whitespace.
Oh, ':set list' is something to remember. Thank you for that.
> one other thingchange the order of lines when troubleshooting. move
> them around and watch the errors and see if they change line numbers.
> Often an error is in an earlier line but syntax checks only hit the
> later lines.
In my experience, Perl is surprisingly accurate. Of course, some errors are
only detectable later on. If you leave out the last single (or double) quote
in a program, the error will be detected at the end of the file (Perl is
quite helpful even in this case though). A missing semicolon will show up as
an error in the following line (or wherever the next statement begins). With
the code in question, I'm almost certain that a
'syntax error ... in line 4, near "$Conf"' (with "$Conf" being the first
five characters of line 4) means that there's some invisible
garbage behind the semicolon in line 3. In fact, the lines from the posting
give a "syntax OK" on my system, so whatever it is doesn't seem to have
survived cut&paste to the mail client.
Moving lines around is a good idea, but, frankly, in a script with four (4!)
statements, I'd say "delete line 3 (the whole line, including the line break)
and type it in again", and "test with
'perl -wc /var/lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl', not by trying to run a
backup ;-)". Perhaps even test without line 3 (before re-inserting it),
presuming it's a statement of its own and not only part of one.
Regards,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax error?
Holger Parplies wrote:
Hi,
Les Stott wrote on 19.01.2007 at 11:27:56 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax error?]:
[...]
hmmm.it all looks right.
that I agree with, but ...
i assume its just word wrapped and the line above starting with sudo
belongs at the end of line 2? If it sees the sudo line as a separate
line then thats where the problem is.
Nope, it's within single quotes, and they're allowed to contain multiple
lines (in fact, that holds for all forms of quoting in Perl). In fact, you
can insert line breaks anywhere whitespace is allowed, because a newline
counts as whitespace.
$Conf
{XferMethod} # you can even comment individual lines
=
'smb'
;
looks ugly, but is perfectly valid. Perhaps you were thinking of TCL, where
the matter of line breaks (and especially comments) is a real pain?
That 'ssh' or 'nice' might choke on the embedded \n in the string is a
different matter.
check the file for proper carriage returns (in vi do a :set list) and
make sure it doesn't have control M's (dos2unix).
Perl supports \r\n line breaks, which is (outside of strings ;-) really only
another instance of the above rule: blanks, newlines, returns, even form feeds
- it's all just whitespace.
Oh, ':set list' is something to remember. Thank you for that.
one other thingchange the order of lines when troubleshooting. move
them around and watch the errors and see if they change line numbers.
Often an error is in an earlier line but syntax checks only hit the
later lines.
In my experience, Perl is surprisingly accurate. Of course, some errors are
only detectable later on. If you leave out the last single (or double) quote
in a program, the error will be detected at the end of the file (Perl is
quite helpful even in this case though). A missing semicolon will show up as
an error in the following line (or wherever the next statement begins). With
the code in question, I'm almost certain that a
'syntax error ... in line 4, near "$Conf"' (with "$Conf" being the first
five characters of line 4) means that there's some invisible
garbage behind the semicolon in line 3. In fact, the lines from the posting
give a "syntax OK" on my system, so whatever it is doesn't seem to have
survived cut&paste to the mail client.
Moving lines around is a good idea, but, frankly, in a script with four (4!)
statements, I'd say "delete line 3 (the whole line, including the line break)
and type it in again", and "test with
'perl -wc /var/lib/backuppc/pc/charles/config.pl', not by trying to run a
backup ;-)". Perhaps even test without line 3 (before re-inserting it),
presuming it's a statement of its own and not only part of one.
Your quite right Holger! i'm no perl expert, (wish i was though!) so my
suggestions were based on things ive seen in the past, not specific to
perl. Was just trying to give some helpful hints to try and solve as all
the syntax looks right.
Thanks for the info on perl. lets hope James can get this working.
Regards,
Les
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