Thanks Ray and Kris for the advice. I checked and found I’ve got 3GB of
memory in my BackupPC Server, so it seems that it should be sufficient.
What user context does BackupPC connect to the machine under in order to
get it to back up properly? Do you enable the root user on the Mac? Or do
you create an administrative user of some sort on the macintosh and run
rsync as that user?
Justin Best
360.513.1489
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ray Frush <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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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