> Hi there, > > I'm having major trouble getting BackupPC to run Rsync backups. I'd be > very grateful if anyone can offer some help. > > I have just installed BackupPC on an Opensolaris 2009.06 (build 134) > system. That in its own right was a major task, and I'd be happy to > share my experiences in getting it installed and (nearly!) functional > with anyone else - in due course I'll try to get round to writing a > how-to for the wiki. > > When I first installed it there was no joy (for the same reasons as > below), but then it started to work. I made no configuration changes, it > just started working. Then it just stopped again. > > The problem is that I'm receiving the "Unable to read 4 bytes" error > every time I start a backup. The log reads as follows: > > full backup started for directory /home > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l david aragorn /usr/bin/rsync --server > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links > --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/ > Xfer PIDs are now 660 > Read EOF: > Tried again: got 0 bytes > Done: 0 files, 0 bytes > Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes) > Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes) > Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the > prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) > > I know that the ssh keys are correctly set up. The following run on the > BackupPC server as user "backuppc" shows that: > > -bash-4.0$ whoami && hostname > backuppc > saruman > -bash-4.0$ ssh -l david aragorn "whoami && hostname" > david > aragorn
So... What about ssh -l david aragorn "/usr/bin/rsync --version" If that works, I'd next try rsync'ing some files from the command line. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
