robin hammond wrote at about 01:11:45 -0500 on Tuesday, January 18, 2022:
>
> I went with plain text. I hope this is more readable.
>
> Invocation, as it is happening on the server:
>
> /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc \
> --bpc-top-dir\
> /vol0/www/STUFF.databit7.com/data/\
> --bpc-host-name\
> phantom.databit7.com\
> --bpc-share-name\
> /home/administrator\
> --bpc-bkup-num\
> 0\
> --bpc-bkup-comp\
> 3\
> --bpc-bkup-prevnum\
> -1\
> --bpc-bkup-prevcomp\
> -1\
> --bpc-bkup-inode0\
> 5\
> --bpc-log-level\
> 1\
> --bpc-attrib-new\
> -e\
> "/usr/bin/ssh -i /home/backuppc/.ssh/some-key
> r...@phantom.databit7.com" \
> --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync\
> --super\
> --recursive\
> --protect-args\
> --numeric-ids\
> --perms\
> --owner\
> --group\
> -D\
> --times\
> --links\
> --hard-links\
> --delete\
> --delete-excluded\
> --one-file-system\
> --partial\
> --log-format="log: %o %i %B %8U,%8G %9l %f%L"\
> --stats\
> --checksum\
> --exclude\
> /proc\
> --exclude\
> *.tmp\
> --iconv=utf8,UTF-8\
> --timeout=72000\
> --include=/home\
> --include=/home/administrator\
> --exclude=/*\
> --exclude=/home/*\
> phantom.databit7.com:/home/administrator/\
> /
One problem is that you probably need to quote the '*' so it doesn't
get globbed.
>
>
> Running this command on the backuppc server produces the following output
>
> sudo -u backuppc sh -c ./rsync.text
>
> bash: phantom.databit7.com: command not found
> rsync_bpc: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
> [Receiver]
> Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0
> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 5 inode
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226)
> [Receiver=3.1.3.0]
>
>
> The question in my mind is Why is backuppc constructing an invocation
> that includes the hostname as a command?
>
>
> the host is configured thusly:
>
>
> $Conf{XferMethod}='rsync';
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = undef;
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = [ '/home/administrator' ];
> $Conf{'RsyncShareName'} = [ "/home/administrator" ] ;
> $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0 ;
>
> # $Conf{rsyncPath} = "/opt/rsyncWrapper"; # this was used to intercept
> the calls to rsync, it CALLS rsync with argv and envv intact.
> $Conf{rsyncPath} = "/usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc";
>
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath $host nice -n 19 sudo $rsyncPath
> $argList+';
>
> $Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync';
>
>
> $Conf{RsyncArgsExtra} = [
> '--exclude', '/proc',
> '--exclude', '*.tmp',
> ];
>
>
> A more basic question might be 'what is the expected invocation of rsync' ?
>
> I'd expect the second to last argument to be accepted without complaint,
> although a username may be required, (and seems experimentally to be),
> but the last argument I'd have expected to have been populated from
> TopDir, but it seems relative to --bpc-top-dir, am I right?
>
>
> All that said, I manually corrected the invocation to:
>
>
> /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc \
> --bpc-top-dir\
> /vol0/www/STUFF.databit7.com/data/\
> --bpc-host-name\
> phantom.databit7.com\
> --bpc-share-name\
> /home/administrator\
> --bpc-bkup-num\
> 1\
> --bpc-bkup-comp\
> 3\
> --bpc-bkup-prevnum\
> -1\
> --bpc-bkup-prevcomp\
> -1\
> --bpc-bkup-inode0\
> 5\
> --bpc-log-level\
> 1\
> --bpc-attrib-new\
> -e\
> '/usr/bin/ssh -i /home/backuppc/.ssh/some-key' \
> --rsync-path="/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/rsync" \
> --super\
> --recursive\
> --protect-args\
> --numeric-ids\
> --perms\
> --owner\
> --group\
> -D\
> --times\
> --links\
> --hard-links\
> --delete\
> --delete-excluded\
> --one-file-system\
> --partial\
> --log-format='log: %o %i %B %8U,%8G %9l %f%L'\
> --stats\
> --checksum\
> --exclude\
> /proc\
> --exclude\
> *.tmp\
> --iconv=utf8,UTF-8\
> --timeout=72000\
> --include=/home\
> --include=/home/administrator\
> r...@phantom.databit7.com:/home/administrator/\
> /
>
>
> So getting close, but no cigar, what configuration do we expect to
> produce this ?
>
>
> Also, nice is, well nice; but `throttle` would be great too. Does anyone
> use backuppc with throttle, at this time?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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