Hi Sometime ago I had a problem similar to that with solaris too and in the end i had trash on the shell, you may try to pass "-e '' " to rsync. Cheers, Pedro
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:17:35 David Wraige wrote: > 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 > > If I run the BackupPC_dump command manually, I get the following: > > -bash-4.0$ /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -vf aragorn > cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/sbin/ping -s aragorn 56 1 > cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING aragorn: 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from aragorn.wraige.com (192.168.1.107): icmp_seq=0. time=1.556 ms > > ----aragorn PING Statistics---- > 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip (ms) min/avg/max/stddev = 1.556/1.556/1.556/-NaN > > cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/sbin/ping -s aragorn 56 1 > cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING aragorn: 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from aragorn.wraige.com (192.168.1.107): icmp_seq=0. time=1.551 ms > > ----aragorn PING Statistics---- > 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip (ms) min/avg/max/stddev = 1.551/1.551/1.551/-NaN > > CheckHostAlive: returning 1.551 > full backup started for directory /home > started full dump, share=/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 763 > xferPids 763 > Got remote protocol 30 > Negotiated protocol version 28 > > It hangs forever at that point. If I understand correctly that means > that the rsync server has started on the client and the following > confirms this: > > da...@aragorn:~$ pgrep -l rsync > 25014 rsync > > I just can't figure out why it won't actually do the transfer, and I've > run out of debugging ideas. If anyone can help me sort this out I'd be > very grateful. > > Thanks in advance, > David > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro M. S. Oliveira IT Consultant Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.linux-geex.com Cellular: +351 96 5867227 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
