Hi all,
First posting. I have been running BackupPC on a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS file server for about 18 months with almost no problems I'm using Version 3.3.2 included in the Ubuntu distro. I hadn't updated since my Linux knowledge is not great and I didn't feel confident to carry out the various steps of the updates. This is used to backup a Window 10 PC usinig smb and a C$ share out of which I was selecting just a number of folders plus complete 'user' trees e.g. /users/xxxx/* and /users/yyyy/* I was accustomed to seeing some xfer errors where some folders were denied due to lack of permissions but these did not result in fatal errors e.g. "/users/xxxx/My Documents" or "/users/yyyy/Start Menu" - known windows Junction Point folders. However, around mid-November 2021 my backups would regularly fail, although would produce a partial backup. Looking at the error log I noticed the fatal error of the form - Got fatal error during xfer (tar:814 do_list failed on Users\Audrey\Downloads\* (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)) Backup aborted (tar:814 do_list failed on Users\Audrey\Downloads\* (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 59 and 0 files versus 59) I've looked around all the backuppc documentation I can find and searched on the web but cannot find any help regarding tar:814 or the do_list. I'm confused since the log often shows Got fatal error during xfer (tar:814 do_list failed on Users\Audrey\Downloads\* (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)) Backup aborted (tar:814 do_list failed on Users\Audrey\Downloads\* (NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 59 and 0 files versus 59) The log often shows tarCreate entries showing 0 errors and various file count statistics. I'm afraid I just don't know enough to work out why the NT_ACCESS_DENIED is now a fatal error when I'm pretty sure it wasn't before - even on the Windows Junction Points which I understand would log an Access denied. I would have thought that tar would just pass over them and just not include them in the archive. >From various web postings I know there are a good number of folk using backuppc to backup Windows 10 PC's to a Linux Server - Has anyone else seen this behaviour? - If you are backing up Users folders, what do you do about the 'Junction Point' folder names? - Anyone know what tar:814 actually means? - An explanation of how backuppc works would be really welcome (help other I'm sure) insomuch as what does it do first - i.e. does it copy all the folders/files to the Linux box as a Tar archive before then extracting the files from the archive to determine if pooling etc is required. Is this the part where my fatal error is being thrown. Hoping someone can kindly point me in a better direction and thanks in anticipation. If providing any logs files etc would be more useful - please indicate which logs I should find and post and I will try to do that. Thanks. Regards PeterG
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