This is picking up something that I didn't have time to sort out in October.
I keep getting a problem from tar when backuppc goes to back up the localhost, which includes a removable drive in the backup targets: tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 1 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 1 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 9243 inodeLast Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /home/adam/.ssh --totals --newer=2023-01-19\ 03:00:00 . incr backup started back to 2023-01-19 03:00:00 (backup #1392) for directory /home/adam/.ssh Xfer PIDs are now 40706,40705 [ skipped 1 lines ] readOutput: sysread returns 0 and got EOF tarExtract: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract: got Full = tarExtract: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract starting... (XferLogLevel = 1) [ skipped 1 lines ] tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 9244 inodeLast Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh --totals --newer=2023-01-19\ 03:00:00 . incr backup started back to 2023-01-19 03:00:00 (backup #1392) for directory /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh Xfer PIDs are now 40709,40708 [ skipped 1 lines ] readOutput: sysread returns 0 and got EOF tarExtract: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract: got Full = tarExtract: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract starting... (XferLogLevel = 1) [ skipped 1 lines ] tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 9245 inodeLast Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /media/adam/Videos-2TB/Videos --totals --newer=2023-01-19\ 03:00:00 . incr backup started back to 2023-01-19 03:00:00 (backup #1392) for directory /media/adam/Videos-2TB/Videos Xfer PIDs are now 40712,40711 /bin/tar: /media/adam/Videos-2TB/Videos: Cannot open: No such file or directory /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now readOutput: sysread returns 0 and got EOF Tar exited with error 512 () status tarExtract: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract: got Full = tarExtract: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract starting... (XferLogLevel = 1) tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 9246 inodeLast Xfer PIDs are now Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 () status) Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status) 50% of the time, the backup works. When I run the command above as the backuppc user, it never fails. The removable drive is always connected. Following advice from this mailing list in October, I searched all my logs and found nothing related. I also added this to ArchivePreUserCmd: ls -la /media/adam/Videos- 2TB/Videos However the error has not been solved. Here's the original email in the archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/ed9ae59-1421-90b0-a546-d5cd95f0facf%40jubileegroup.co.uk/ Have you got any more advice on this for me? Thanks & regards Adam
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