Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-10-03 Thread Marty
Brendan Simon wrote: I fixed the remote login problem, but now my backups seem to be exiting prematurely. The only error message is: backup failed (Child exited prematurely) Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I'm using rsync/rsh from an Intel Debian Linux server (backuppc) to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-10-03 Thread Brendan Simon
Hi All, I think I found it after a big of googling. My disk is full because I haven't mounted my backup drive properly :-[ I agree with someone else that posted a message in response to the same error message I saw, that a more relevant error message would be better. eg. disk full, not enough

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-10-03 Thread Brendan Simon
I fixed the remote login problem, but now my backups seem to be exiting prematurely. The only error message is: backup failed (Child exited prematurely) Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I'm using rsync/rsh from an Intel Debian Linux server (backuppc) to backup a small test di

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-09-30 Thread Brendan Simon
Craig Barratt wrote: Brendan Simon writes: OK. I got my local host backing up OK :) Now when I try my remote server (Debian Linux PPC) with rsync/ssh I get an error saying "fileListReceive failed". I have constrained the backup directory to my own temp directory "/home/bjsimon/Temp" wh

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-09-30 Thread Craig Barratt
Brendan Simon writes: > OK. I got my local host backing up OK :) > > Now when I try my remote server (Debian Linux PPC) with rsync/ssh I get > an error saying "fileListReceive failed". I have constrained the backup > directory to my own temp directory "/home/bjsimon/Temp" which is only > 373

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-09-29 Thread Brendan Simon
05 15:05:10 +1000 From: Brendan Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server Hi Torsten. Good idea to get local host going first :) Quick question though. What is "GetTar"?

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-09-29 Thread Torsten Sadowski
g first :) Quick question though. What is "GetTar"? Why is it in /etc/backuppc/ directory? Is a binary or script that comes with backuppc? If so, I don't have it!!! Thanks, Brendan. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 4 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:26:00 +0200 Subject: Re: [BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-09-28 Thread Brendan Simon
Sep 2005 11:26:00 +0200 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server From: Torsten Sadowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Organization: TU Berlin Hi Brendan, I'm using tar over ssh for the backup of Linux machines and just tar for loca

Re: [BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-09-28 Thread Torsten Sadowski
Hi Brendan, I'm using tar over ssh for the backup of Linux machines and just tar for localhost (the backuppc server). My localhost.pl looks like this: $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar'; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/var/lib/backuppc']; $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList'; $Conf{Tar

[BackupPC-users] Errors backing up Linux server

2005-09-27 Thread Brendan Simon
Hi, I'm a backuppc newbie and am trying to use backuppc on a Debian Linux host (AMD Athlon 1.4GHz, 256MB) to backup some Linux servers. At the moment I'm just trying to backup the home directory on one Debian Linux PPC server. The home directory is about 40GB. Eventually I'd like to backup