Actually, the new clients are debian etch! That explains the rsync version
difference.
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:35:50PM -0700, James Ward wrote:
> I'm backing up over 200 hosts to three big BackupPC servers. I added
> 5 new clients today and all five are exhibiting the same strange exit
> with no discernable errors.
>
> All machines concerned are running debian sarge and BackupPC is
> 2.1.1. The config file shared for the five boxes:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/mysql', '/
> dgisi'];
>
> The command to run is:
>
> sudo /var/backups/rsyncSend --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --
> owner --group --devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive
> --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/var/lib/mysql --exclude=/
> dgisi --ignore-times . /
>
> rsyncSend is:
>
> #!/bin/sh -f
> exec /usr/bin/rsync $*
>
> An example error log is:
>
> Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/dg1.chinoc.net/XferLOG.bad.z,
> modified 2007-03-01 14:24:54 (Extracting only Errors)
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -c arcfour -p 8889 -q -x -l backup
> dg1.chinoc.net sudo /var/backups/rsyncSend --server --sender --
> numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times --block-
> size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/var/
> lib/mysql --exclude=/dgisi --ignore-times . /
> Xfer PIDs are now 6052
> Got remote protocol 29
> Negotiated protocol version 26
> Sent exclude: /proc
> Sent exclude: /sys
> Sent exclude: /var/lib/mysql
> Sent exclude: /dgisi
> fileListReceive() failed
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
> Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
>
> I seem to be able to run the command manually, no problem ( I do
> interrupt it after a couple of minutes). When I start a backup from
> the web interface, it exits almost immediately.
>
> Any ideas what could be wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> James
>
> P.S. I see that rsync is 2.6.4 on the server and 2.6.9 on these new
> clients. Is this a problem?
>
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