Jack M. Nilles wrote:
>
> *Re: [BackupPC-users] recurrent backup failed' messages*
> From: Matthias Meyer <matthias.me...@gm...> - 2010-07-29 20:12
>
> Jack M. Nilles wrote:
>
>> I'm moving BackupPC to a new machine, running SUSE 11.2. After
>> installation I get nothing but the dreaded pink background and:
>> 'backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes)'
>> messages for each host being backed up. Yet, if I start a backup via:
>>
>> sudo -u backuppc /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f<host>
>>
>> I do indeed get the backup, along with verbose output, provided I keep
>> tabs on each backup section, since a password is required at each
>> section.
>>
>> What little detail am I missing here?
>
> To tell us something about your configuration
> - connection to client (smb-share, ssh, rsync, ... )
> - xfermethod (smb, rsync, rsyncd, ... )
> - OS of client
>
> The connections to clients are all ssh
> Xfer method is rsync
> Client OSes are OS X and Linux
>
> Currently I'm testing this by putting the backed up files on the server
> but plan to move them to a USB hard drive when all is in operating order.
>
> The $Conf{RsyncShareName} entries usually have multiple entries; the
> BackupPC_dump fails during the transition from entry to entry if I'm not
> immediately there to input the root password. The files are being backed
> up but it sure isn't automatic.
>
> It almost seems like I'm getting timeouts and need to change some
> configuration setting to avoid it.
If so you should have some logfiles. As well from BackupPC as from client
side. Try to increase log verbosity of rsync.
br
Matthias
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