Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing, file contents printed to screen

2023-07-20 Thread backuppc
I suggest trying to recreate this by running 'rsync' manually using as similar options to backuppc as possible. You can see the options by running 'ps' while backuppc is running. Also try to use the same rsync version as backuppc is using. This way you should be able to (mostly) rule out a problem

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing, file contents printed to screen

2023-07-20 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, David Raison wrote: On 19/07/2023 13:25, David Raison wrote: I guess I'll try to pipe the process' output to files so that I may be able to spot when and/or where exactly the switch from listing to dumping happens ... ... where it started dumping content during

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing, file contents printed to screen

2023-07-20 Thread David Raison
Hi, On 20/07/2023 10:29, Jamie Burchell wrote: Could it be an issue with running out of memory? Do the system logs have anything interesting in them around the time it goes haywire? No, I went through all of the system logs and in-memory logs for yesterday and today and there is nothing not

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing, file contents printed to screen

2023-07-20 Thread Jamie Burchell
Could it be an issue with running out of memory? Do the system logs have anything interesting in them around the time it goes haywire? *From:* David Raison *Sent:* Thursday, July 20, 2023 9:05 AM *To:* backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing, file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing, file contents printed to screen

2023-07-20 Thread David Raison
Hi again, On 19/07/2023 13:25, David Raison wrote: I guess I'll try to pipe the process' output to files so that I may > be able to spot when and/or where exactly the switch from listing to > dumping happens, but any ideas from your side are more than welcome. When it's dumping contents to th

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing, file contents printed to screen

2023-07-19 Thread David Raison
Hi backuppc users, I have seen this before, and then it was usually rsync trying to sync files that were currently being written (and not part of excluded files when they should be), but this time I'm a bit at a loss and hoping for input from the community. On this particular host that is s

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing on Windows 7 machines

2014-05-19 Thread snowybunting
We have a small network of 6 machines, until recently all were running XP and being backed up to a CentOS 5.10 box with backuppc-3.1.0. We started updating machines to Windows 7 professional, now I'm getting NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE on those machines. All the windows 7 machines can access shares

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing on Windows 7 machines

2014-05-19 Thread snowybunting
Oh, FFS. Apparently the shop where I bought the windows 7 computers had the original login account username set as "Owner", which I had changed in the User Config control panel, but apparently that is not enough. Logging in with "Owner" seems to have fixed at least the backup problems. +---

[BackupPC-users] Backups Failing

2014-05-19 Thread prenger745
I am having an issue with backups failing on one of my backups. Here is the error: tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 32 filesExist, 25053747 sizeExist, 24503551 sizeExistComp, 264 filesTotal, 383879419 sizeTotal Backup aborted () And here is the last entry in the file log: tarExtract: Done: 0 erro

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2010-01-02 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:06:20 -0500 on Saturday, January 2, 2010: > I recently upgraded from F10 to F11 via preupgrade and everything > appeared to go fine but now the backups of my PC keep failing with the > following error in the log file: > > Backup failed on steve (Tar exited wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2010-01-02 Thread Harold Ancell
At 12:03 PM 1/2/2010, Steve Blackwell wrote: >On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:40:51 -0600 >"Michael Stowe" wrote: > >> > - The upgrade from F10->F11 chaged the name of my backup media >> > from /media/disk to /media/ so I changed $TopDir >> > accordingly. >> >> That's your problem ... you can't do this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2010-01-02 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:40:51 -0600 "Michael Stowe" wrote: > > > - The upgrade from F10->F11 chaged the name of my backup media > > from /media/disk to /media/ so I changed $TopDir > > accordingly. > > That's your problem ... you can't do this. > > I'd recommend putting $TopDir back to what

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Stowe
> - The upgrade from F10->F11 chaged the name of my backup media > from /media/disk to /media/ so I changed $TopDir > accordingly. That's your problem ... you can't do this. I'd recommend putting $TopDir back to what it was and creating a symbolic link. -

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2010-01-02 Thread Steve Blackwell
I recently upgraded from F10 to F11 via preupgrade and everything appeared to go fine but now the backups of my PC keep failing with the following error in the log file: Backup failed on steve (Tar exited with error 512 () status) Info tar says there are only 3 possible exit codes; 0, 1 and 2 but

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups failing due to errors under /sys... BackupFilesExclude is not taking effect. What gives?

2008-12-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 > > Backups of a single host are aborting after lots of errors like > > sys/block/hdc/capability: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file > removed Remote[1]: rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/block/hdc/capability": > No data availa

[BackupPC-users] backups failing due to errors under /sys... BackupFilesExclude is not taking effect. What gives?

2008-12-08 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2 Backups of a single host are aborting after lots of errors like sys/block/hdc/capability: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed Remote[1]: rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/block/hdc/capability": No data available (61) sys/block/hdc/dev: md4 doesn't ma

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing with fileListReceive failed.

2008-12-02 Thread Mark Maciolek
hi, Rsync does not want any thing to be echoed back when ssh to client from root's .bashrc file. as a test from the backuppc server try this as user backuppc: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls anaconda-ks.cfg Desktop install.log install.log.syslog mail Mail results should be list of files in root's hom

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing with fileListReceive failed.

2008-12-02 Thread Mark Adams
A Google search indicates that this may be a problem with rsync, but I can't find anything more specific and I don't know enough about rsync over ssh or backuppc to know where to start troubleshooting. Can someone please enlighten me? I would really appreciate it. Here is the log file from a f

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2008-06-03 Thread Alex Schaft
On 2008/06/02 16:36, Chris Baker wrote: > Naturally, I wonder if something is going on with the power management of > this laptop. Laptops are usually set up differently for this. Perhaps you > are also having battery problems which could cause many other problems. > > I do hope that your laptop is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2008-06-02 Thread Chris Baker
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Backups failing Hi, On my personal laptop, I haven't been able to do backups for a while. Below is an extract of the error log. Other backups work fine, and I've repeatedly deleted and recreated the shares on this laptop, to no avail. Is there something els

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing

2008-06-02 Thread Alex Schaft
Hi, On my personal laptop, I haven't been able to do backups for a while. Below is an extract of the error log. Other backups work fine, and I've repeatedly deleted and recreated the shares on this laptop, to no avail. Is there something else that can be done, short of nuking the laptop and relo

[BackupPC-users] Backups failing on my laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Alex Schaft
Hi all, I posted about this a while back, about my laptop not being backed up due to a "lost network connection during backup" error. I've tried recreating the shares, swapping cables, sitting at different desks, but I'm still at a loss as to why this is happening. Below is an excerpt from the