On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:49:12AM +0200, brunal wrote: > But still doesn't work, same old story with "Unable to read 4 bytes". > (crying). > > So after filling a few kleenex, I tried these commands : > > /ffp/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.1.2 /usr/bin/rsync --version > > Answer : > rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 > Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. > <http://rsync.samba.org/> > Capabilities: 64-bit files, .... blablabla > ... General Public Licence for details. > > Seems to work! > > But when I get : > /ffp/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.1.2 rsync --server --sender -- > numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times -- > block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/temp/ > > Nothing happend and the command just freeze. (crying again). > > i tried to dig in /var/log in the host-to-backup-192.168.1.2 to fing > a relevant log file but I found nothing. > > Please light my way, it's getting darker....
I notice that you had to provide the full path to rsync in your /usr/bin/rsync --version example, but you don't have the full path in the backuppc rsync command. Maybe that's a clue (although I would be surprised that /usr/bin isn't in root's path). -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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/