Thanks Allen,
I forgot to mention that. It's a usb hard drive formatted to ext3, like
my internal drive.
Loren
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:33 PM, ALSto <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Fri, 8/20/10, Loren Serfass <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Loren Serfass <[email protected]>
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] set-up question: how do I avoid "Cannot open:
> Permission denied" and "0 bytes"? Please help!
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, August 20, 2010, 9:50 PM
>
> Hello,
> I am a new user of this software and new to this list. Apologies for
> the long email, but I want to make it clear exactly where I am in order to
> avoid wasting your time with back-and-forth. Please be patient and help me,
> because I have spent hours and hours following the provided instructions,
> reading user forums, and experimenting. Posting this is my very last
> resort. If you find a glaring gap in my knowledge or something obvious that
> I did wrong, I would be overjoyed.
>
> For background: I am working with BackupPC version 3.1.0-4, installed
> by synaptic onto Debian lenny (I'd rather not install from the more recent
> source). I am trying to back up my internal hard drive onto an external
> hard drive which is mounted at /var/lib/backuppc.
>
> I have read the documentation, the ssh setup instructions, and the
> localhost instructions from the following websites.
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html
>
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html
>
>
>
> My progress so far:
>
> ---BackupPC starts properly when run from the root account and I can log
> onto the interface in a web browser. (I get "start-stop-daemon: command not
> found" when I run it as the backuppc user.)
>
>
> ---After following instructions, the ssh seems to be set up properly, since
> running "ssh -l root localhost whoami" as the backuppc user prints just
> "root." (This is the test given in the ssh instructions).
>
>
> ---I have enabled the backuppc user to use sudo with the commands /bin/tar
> and /usr/bin/rsync. I'm pretty sure these are working correctly because
> when I am logged into a terminal as backuppc I can still tar a file that has
> -rw------- permissions and root ownership.
>
>
> ---I have tried both tar and rsync as the XferMethod. I have changed the
> TarClientCmd and RsyncClientCmd to use sudo. I tried to do it as described
> on the localhost FAQ (though this is one of the more difficult parts for
> me).
>
>
> ---There are cpool, log, pc, pool, and trash directories in
> /var/lib/backuppc. Each has permissions drwxr-x--- Each is owned by
> backuppc and has group backuppc.
>
> ---I have excluded /var/lib/backuppc from the backups, and made a few other
> minor changes.
>
>
> HOWEVER:
>
> When I request a full backup of localhost, I STILL get "Cannot open:
> Permission denied" errors in the log file. The problem files all have
> -rw------- permissions, so it seems that tar isn't working properly when run
> through the program although it works fine on that type of file when run by
> the backuppc user in isolation. I have been mostly starting backuppc when
> logged in as root, by the way. That seems counterintuitive to me, but when
> I start it when logged on the backuppc user, I get "start-stop-daemon:
> command not found".
>
>
> Most frustrating, the log file always ends with "...full backup X complete,
> 2891 files, 0 bytes, 37 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 37 other)".
> The "0 bytes" part seems to mean that it didn't back up ANY data. And it
> only takes a few seconds, so I know that it's not backing up. I get these
> same problems after many backups and also after reinstalling/reconfiguring,
> so it's very consistent.
>
>
> Perplexingly, it seems to be trying to back up only the /etc directory.
> Why isn't it doing the whole / directory? That's what I tried to set up. I
> just want to back up my whole hard drive onto an external drive.
>
>
> Are these problems easy to solve, or should I switch away from backuppc?
> If so, could you recommend something easy?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi Loren;
>
> Before delving to far and sorry a back-forth question... What type of
> external HDD do you have? If it is USB, what file system is it formatted
> with?
>
> Allen...
>
>
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