Jon Daley via BackupPC-users wrote at about 03:57:19 -0400 on Thursday, April 7, 2022: > I recently upgraded backuppc to V4 and the bcp version of rsync, and I > can't get anything to work. The migration to V4 seems to have gone well - > it took 2-3 days to run through all of the hosts (15 hosts with 105 > backups) > > All backups get an error like this: > 2022-04-07 03:02:37 incr backup started for directory /home > 2022-04-07 03:02:39 Got fatal error during xfer (rsync error: error in rsync > protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3.0]) > 2022-04-07 03:02:44 Backup aborted (rsync error: error in rsync protocol > data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.3.0]) > > > I tried just running the bpc tool on its own and got: > > ~>/usr/libexec/backuppc-rsync/rsync_bpc -a Downloads d > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at options.c(1882) > [client=3.1.3.0] > That is normal as rsync_bpc (obviously) does not take the same options as rsync and is not meant to be run standalone from the command line.
It requires a number of options which are pulled in from the config file or from each host's backuppc history... > So, I think that proves that it is rsync-bpc that is causing > trouble, as `rsync -a Downloads d` works perfectly fine. Nope. Just proves you don't know how rsync_bpc works... I would try running from the command line: BackupPC_dump -vvv -f <client> And see where it fails... _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
