Nick, I've installed rsnapshot on my server. I tried to get it to pull from my desktop, but as with pushing I can't get ssh to connect.
============================================= require Lchown Lchown module loaded successfully Setting locale to POSIX "C" echo 32203 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid mv /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.3/ \ /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.4/ mv /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.2/ \ /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.3/ mv /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.1/ \ /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.2/ /bin/cp -al /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.0 \ /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.1 /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \ --include=/home/bruce2/ --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh -l root@192.168.1.129:/ \ /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.0/r...@faintfuzzies.ca:/ ssh: connect to host root port 22: Connection timed out rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -VD alpha ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 0.99609375 while processing root@192.168.1.129:/ /usr/bin/logger -p user.err -t rsnapshot[32203] /usr/bin/rsnapshot -VD \ alpha: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 0.99609375 while processing \ root@192.168.1.129:/ touch /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.0/ rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid /usr/bin/logger -p user.err -t rsnapshot[32203] /usr/bin/rsnapshot -VD \ alpha: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -VD alpha: completed, but with some \ errors On April 4, 2016 01:08:24 AM Nicholas Savage wrote: > > Nick, > > > > Not too late. Still stuck at this stage. Below is my config. > > > > ==================================== > > > > [snip] > > > > # Rsync BBOX > > backup root@192.168.1.129:/ r...@faintfuzzies.ca:/ > > Rsnapshot for some reason isn't able to push to a remote server, so that is > probably the reason it isn't working for you. The FAQ > (http://rsnapshot.org/faq.html) recommends that you pull from the remote > server instead, and have multiple configuration files. It's definitely > inconvenient but I've never taken the time to look into why. I also feel a > bit silly about not realizing that the listserv breaks up what it thinks > are emails. > > Hope that helps! > Nick _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux