Hi, I'm in the process of a clean install of BackupPC (latest version) on a CentOS 5.2 system, to backup a pool of 3 machines (the BackupPC machine itself is a fileserver with ~500gigs of data presently to be backed up; then 2 other linux servers with small assorted homedir data to grab)
Initially I had configured backups via tar, and this seemed to work as expected / desired; but I understand that rsync is considered superior approach to backups for BackupPC on linux, so I tweaked configuration to use rsync. With this in place, * I can't get a "full backup" to complete and exit cleanly - they always give an 'error' which is rather confusing (see pasted below an example) * it appears to be considering the backup a 'partial' due to an ?error state? in the rsync exit status * however all my files appear to be backed up, and the disk footprint is consistent with this. I'm curious if anyone has comments on what could be causing this (rsync configuration / parameters possibly ?) Initially I thought it was maybe due to different scheme for 'backup-pc side' data storage - so I flushed entirely the backups of my systems that were generated via Tar - and started with clean slate for the rsync jobs - but this had no impact... so it wasn't any kind of issue like that. Comments or suggestions are most welcome. (Help is greatly appreciated!) Thanks, Tim Chipman ---paste--- this is capture of XferLog.bad.z for one of the 2 linux machines being backed up via rsync. take note of the "backup aborted ()" error on second-last-line .... Contents of file /iscsi2/backuppc/pc/cluster/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2008-12-18 06:07:29 (Extracting only Errors) full backup started for directory /export/home Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l backupuser cluster sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --checksum-seed=32761 --ignore-times . /export/home/ Xfer PIDs are now 8222 Got remote protocol 28 Negotiated protocol version 28 Checksum caching enabled (checksumSeed = 32761) Xfer PIDs are now 8222,8229 [ skipped 13416 lines ] Done: 12826 files, 15858282948 bytes Backup aborted () Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 12826 and 12826 files versus 12826) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ 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/