Thanks Carl, This was good advice. I tried a number of your approaches like a manual dump and using rsyncd and even set up a new data directory for Backuppc to eliminate filesystem corruption, but nothing worked. Then I did a manual dump as you suggested again but this time I used the IP address of the host rather then the host name and it worked!
It turned out that by changing the order of my host resolution in samba config I could resolve the problem. I now use: "name resolve order = wins lmhosts host bcast". Originally I had 'host' and 'wins' round the other way. I do not know for sure what the mechanism for the failure was but I think that it could have been a name resolution time out as I noticed that name resolution for samba hosts is now much faster. Thanks for your help again. Manu. On 15/04/2011 2:49 a.m., Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 04/14 12:24 , Manu Poletti wrote: >> We use BackupPC on Ubuntu Hardy to backup a number of Windows XP hosts >> using smb. It has worked faultlessly for at last 2 years; until a week >> ago when the hosts stopped being backed up. Now none except localhost >> that uses the tar transfer method work. > Have you tried running BackupPC_dump by hand? > > $ su - > # su - backuppc > $ /usr/share/lib/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v host.to.backup > > See if there's any consistency on where it stops, or if it gives you any > meaningful error. > > > Have you checked for filesystem corruption on your backuppc server? > > In cases like this in the past, where it happened with individual hosts; I > would just try excluding parts of the filesystem on the host to be backed > up, until the backup succeeded. However, if all hosts are having the same > problem it would seem to be an issue with the backup server itself. > > > Are all your clients being backed up with SMB? Try setting some up to use > Cygwin rsyncd, and see if that succeeds. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
