Like Kris, we back up a number of MacBooks here using rsync via ssh, and
have never had an issue.
Also like Kris, we only backup /Users which limits what we're backing up.
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Justin Best <jus...@mjbest.com> wrote:
> I’m a user of BackupPC from way back (2005-ish). Love the product (thanks
> Craig!!) and I”m looking forward to hearing any experiences with 4.0
>
> I’ve got a couple sites with about 10-15 Macintosh machines (OS X 10.6,
> 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9) that I’m considering using BackupPC at. Does anybody
> else use BackupPC for backing up OSX machines? I’ve tried testing with
> rsync, but it seemed to simply hang when I tried to back up the entire
> folder structure (beginning with /). rsync also choked when I tried to
> backup my home directory in its entirety. It (rsync) seems only to work
> when I backup a small subset of data (I can successfully backup
> /Users/Justin/Desktop without any problems)
>
> I’ve seen some suggestions that say “use xtar”, but don’t explain how to
> do this. I’ve tried installing xtar from helios.de, assuming that’s what
> others are referring to, but attempts to back up (choosing xfer method
> “tar”, setting the command to /usr/bin/xtar) and using this result in
> errors:
>
> Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/
> justins-air.nwtechs.com/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2013-12-04 09:47:29
>
> --------------------
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root justins-air.nwtechs.com env LC_ALL=C
> /usr/bin/xtar -c -v -f - -C /Users/Justin/Desktop --totals .
> full backup started for directory /Users/Justin/Desktop
> Xfer PIDs are now 1317,1316
> tarExtract: Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at
> /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 302.
> tarExtract: Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at
> /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1425.
> Tar exited with error 65280 () status
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0
> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /Users/Justin/Desktop)
> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /Users/Justin/Desktop)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior
> one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
>
> --------------------
>
> Anyone have advice for me? Should I give up and use a commercial tool like
> Retrospect for the macs, or should I press on?
>
>
> Justin Best
> 360.513.1489
>
>
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