Graham, Tar exit status of 512 means it encountered some sort of error (eg, file read error) while it was running on the target client. Please look at the XferLOG.bad file carefully to see the specific error from tar.
If you are unable to see the error, please send me the entire XferLOG.bad file? Craig On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:13 PM Graham Seaman <gra...@theseamans.net> wrote: > I have a persistent problem with backing up one host: I can do a full > backup, but an incremental backup fails on trying to transfer the first > directory: > > tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 2 filesExist, 81381 sizeExist, 18122 > sizeExistComp, 2 filesTotal, 81381 sizeTotal > Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 () status) > Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status) > > All other hosts work ok. So I'm guessing it must be a file permission > error. Looking at the files, everything seems to be owned by > backuppc.backuppc, so I don't know where/what else to look for. Any > suggestions? > > Thanks > Graham > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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