> > Thanks for the help. > > Tyler J. Wagner wrote: >> On Tuesday 29 June 2010 04:29:14 Michael Stowe wrote: >> >> > Leave the settings for that alone ... and use a symbolic link. >> > >> >> Or do both. I've changed both topdir and put in a symlink. It works. >> > > > I created a symlink - hopefully correctly. The original install placed > backups in /var/lib/backuppc and I wanted to redirect them to > /media/data/backuppc. I created the symlink with ln -s /var/lib/backuppc > /media/data/backuppc which created a folder named backuppc in the > /media/data/ folder. Hopefully I got this the right way around. > > However, when I try to backup a host from the network it fails and the log > shows: > > Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/192.168.72.11/LOG.062010, modified > 2010-06-29 21:01:27 > > 2010-06-29 21:01:20 full backup started for directory / > 2010-06-29 21:01:22 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes) > 2010-06-29 21:01:27 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes) > > I seem to have a problem?
Those symptoms almost universally mean that ssh isn't set up right. To test it, su - over to the backuppc user and see if you can log in to the remote system as root without being prompted for a password. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ 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/
