Hi there, I have setup a backuppc server but when I start a backup through the web page of the server (http://myserver/BackupPC?host=myclient) by clicking either the "Start Incr Backup" or the "Start Full Backup" button, it fails saying:
------------------------------------------ incr backup started back to 2015-10-26 18:05:18 (backup #0) for directory /home/smith Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root myclient /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /home/smith/ Xfer PIDs are now 9336 Rsync command pid is 9336 Got remote protocol 1768059695 Fatal error (bad version): /sbin/nologin: invalid option -- 'c' Usage: nologin [options] Politely refuse a login. Options: -h, --help display this help and exit -V, --version output version information and exit For more details see nologin(8). Checksum seed is 1869492078 Got checksumSeed 0x6f6e2f6e Read EOF: Connection reset by peer Tried again: got 0 bytes fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) ------------------------------------------ So instead of starting the backup from the web UI of backuppc, I log in as user 'backuppc' ------------------------------------------ # su -s /bin/bash backuppc ------------------------------------------ and I start running a backup on the command line like this: ------------------------------------------ # /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -i myclient cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/ping -c 1 myclient cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING myclient (10.0.21.18) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from myclient (10.0.21.18): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.144 ms --- myclient ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.144/0.144/0.144/0.000 ms cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/ping -c 1 myclient cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING myclient (10.0.21.18) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from myclient (10.0.21.18): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.134 ms --- myclient ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.134/0.134/0.134/0.000 ms CheckHostAlive: returning 0.134 incr backup started back to 2015-10-26 18:05:18 (backup #0) for directory /home/smith started incr dump, share=/home/smith Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root myclient /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /home/smith/ Xfer PIDs are now 9318 xferPids 9318 Rsync command pid is 9318 Got remote protocol 31 Negotiated protocol version 28 Checksum seed is 1445938945 Got checksumSeed 0x562f4701 Got file list: 615 entries Child PID is 9321 Xfer PIDs are now 9318,9321 xferPids 9318,9321 Sending csums, cnt = 615, phase = 0 Skipping .ICEauthority (same attr) Skipping .Xauthority (same attr) Skipping .bash_history (same attr) Skipping .bash_logout (same attr) Skipping .bash_profile (same attr) Skipping .bashrc (same attr) [...] Finished deltaGet phase 0 Finished deltaGet phase 1 Done: 838 files, 72752515 bytes incr backup complete ------------------------------------------ and the backup went just fine. I can even see the list of backups I have done manually so far. What did I miss here? Fuji +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by lifid1...@einrot.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/