Holger, thanks for your reply.
I'll will be running some troubleshooting commands with the rsync "-A"
and "-X" options to see what happens. I have not taken the time to read
up on "File::RsyncP", yet. Plan to do that this weekend.
You insight is a big help. Thank you.
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On 2015-06-26 08:44, Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Robert Wooden wrote on 2015-06-26 11:45:05 +0000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] add
> rsync -A -X and get 'Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)']:
>
>> I also posted this on the rsync mailing list . . . more soon.
>
> and also here on the list. Sorry for not replying yet.
>
> "This" was:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob of Donelson Trophy"
>> <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 6:56:52 AM Subject:
>> [BackupPC-users] add rsync -A -X and get 'Got fatal error during xfer
>> (fileListReceive failed)' I am trying to add acl file permissions and attr
>> to rsync in "RsyncArgs" and "RsyncRestoreArgs" and have discovered that
>> their addition is not that easy. When backups are run the log files
>> contains: "Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)". Removing
>> the "-A" and the "-X" allows the backup to proceed without errors. Is there
>> another 'switch' that needs to be added? Anyone familiar with this addition?
>
> Simple answer: it won't work.
>
> BackupPC (version 3) uses the Perl module File::RsyncP on the server side to
> do its part of the communication. It does this for the simple reason that it
> stores file data and metadata differently than the native file system does:
> file data may be optionally compressed and is pooled to save large amounts of
> storage space. File metadata needs to be stored independently because it may
> differ across instances of one pooled file. Adding arbitrary new metadata
> won't just magically work. Someone would need to change the format of BackupPC
> attrib files to allow storing the new (meta-)data as well as implement
> extracting the data from what the remote system sends. This means the rsync
> XferMethod would need to handle multiple combinations of -A and -X switches
> (including both not set). All other XferMethods might need to be adjusted,
> regardless of whether they are even capable of transferring this information.
> All of that could be done, but I don't see anyone doing it any time soon, if
> at all.
>
> I believe some people use a DumpPreUserCmd (or DumpPreShareCmd) to dump ACLs
> and extended attributes to a file which is then included in the backup.
> Restoring a subset of the backup is probably not easy in this case, though,
> and might require some manual work.
>
> I'm not sure whether BackupPC v4 supports ACLs and extended attributes.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
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