On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 19:22 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)
wrote:
> Randall Barlow wrote:
>
> > Sorry for the post - as fate would have it I resolved the issue just
> > minutes after posting it. It turns out that I had only attempted to
> > connect to remotehost.remotedomain as I was testing how well the
> > ssh key
> > pair worked, but backuppc was just trying to connect to remotehost
> > (thus, the name remotehost hadn't been added to the known_hosts and it
> > was asking the yes/no question which backuppc wasn't expecting/
> > shouldn't
> > expect :))
>
> I have the same problem (fileListReceive failed):
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root <full-hostname> /usr/bin/rsync --
> server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --
> links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --ignore-
> times . /
> Xfer PIDs are now 12189
> Got remote protocol 29
> fileListReceive() failed
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
> Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
>
> I'm using the rsync transfer method. However, when I do 'su -
> backuppc' I can run 'ssh root@<full-hostname>' just fine and I end up
> at the prompt of the client machine. Where else do I check what's wrong?
>
What version of rsync are you using? Later versions need --devices
changed to -D in $Conf{RsyncArgs}.
> Nils Breunese.
>
> > Randall Barlow wrote:
> >> OK,
> >>
> >> So I have the system backing up my localhost OK, and two other
> >> windows machines, but I'm having trouble getting it to work with
> >> rsync
> >> over ssh for a remote host. I am running backuppc as user apache,
> >> and
> >> so I've created a public/private key pair and stored it in
> >> ~apache/.ssh/id_rsa on the local server, and have added it to the
> >> root
> >> user's authorized keys for the remote server. Now if I su apache,
> >> I am
> >> allowed to ssh to the remote host without being asked for a password.
> >> However, when I try to backup the remote machine via the CGI, I
> >> get the
> >> error: "fileListReceive failed". Inspecting the logs:
> >>
> >> Fatal error (bad version): Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by
> >> server
> >> Xlib: 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)
> >>
> >> Has anybody seen this problem before? It seems like it's trying
> >> to open
> >> up an X window for some reason, any ideas?
>
>
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