Thank you. I would argue that reporting an exit status of 512 when tar(1) returns 2 is misleading. It misled me anyway.
The source of the problem is that localhost.pl ran a tar(1) locally
under the backuppc account and did not set the --ignore-failed-read
option. Using the generic $Conf{TarClientCmd} from config.pl solved that
one.
Looks like the localhost.pl file in the Ubuntu distribution (at least)
could do with a little attention.
Paul
On 28/11/2020 22:52, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users wrote:
> The reported exit status is shifted left by 8 bits, so that means tar
> exited with status 2, which means failure.
>
> You should look at the XferLOG to see what error(s) it reported. It
> could be something benign, but you should be sure before you start
> disabling error checking.
>
> Craig
>
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 8:59 AM Paul Leyland <paul.leyl...@gmail.com
> <mailto:paul.leyl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> This is a golden oldie. At least a decade after
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/AANLkTi%3DuzdiYV1jCzofkfeEQ6-czx34uEmYx2159Uxa%2B%40mail.gmail.com/#msg26616969
>
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/AANLkTi%3DuzdiYV1jCzofkfeEQ6-czx34uEmYx2159Uxa%2B%40mail.gmail.com/#msg26616969>
> appeared, Ubuntu still ships with a backuppc which reports
>
> backup failed (Tar exited with error 512 () status) for the localhost
> target, even though the backup is, AFAICT, adequate in every significant
> respect.
>
> Should the source be changed to mask off only the bottom 8 bits?
>
> For the time being I will add the option "--ignore-failed-read" to
> TarClientCmd for localhost. Cosmetic, true, because the backup is
> fully functional but still...
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