On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Matthew Grob <mg...@grobfamily.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply. I understand what you're getting at and I tried
> several ways to do that. I was able to set things up so the paths are
> exactly the same on the two machines (the local and the remote client).
>
> But for some reason I cannot get the local backup to actually run. I tried
> both rsync and tar transfer methods - both fail. I thought maybe it was
> related to permissions but I tested command line versions of rsync while
> logged in as the backupPC user and those all worked.
>
> Below is the log output. Not sure why it's not working - again it's the
> local backup that is not working (the remote one works great).
>
> thanks,
> Matt
>
>
> Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/XferLOG.bad.z, modified
> 2012-11-25 20:20:59
>
> full backup started for directory /
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root localhost /usr/bin/rsync --server
> --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links
> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /
> Xfer PIDs are now 25010
> Rsync command pid is 25010
> Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
> 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)
That looks like the ssh keys aren't set up correctly. Are you sure
you tested ssh from the backuppc user to root@localhost?
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