On 11/26/23 05:30, Christian Völker wrote:
Hi, > > thanks for pointins this out. I do not remember having
set this > manually on all hosts. It was set globally
anyways so I removed these > entries from all clients. > >
And I have only a username for this single host (as it is
MacOS and > does not know "root" as the others do). > >
Meanwhile I have removed the host an created it from
scratch. Started > a backupc and now everything seems to
work fine. I do not know how > this has happened. > >
Thanks! > > /KNEBB > > > Am 24.11.23 um 17:05 schrieb jbk:
>> On 11/14/23 14:09, Christian Völker wrote: >>> Hi, >>>
>>> I have BackupPC 4.x running on a Debian system. Works
like a >>> champ since years now. >>> >>> One of my clients
is an Apple Mac with current up-to-date MacOS. >>> rsync is
installed: >>> >>> username@macos Documents % rsync
--version rsync version 2.6.9 >>> protocol version 29
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, >>> Wayne
Davison, and others. So far it works fine. It does the >>>
backupsand all is good. I am backing up the Users-Folder as
>>> "$RsyncShareName": "/Users/username" and excluded some
unneeded >>> directories. >>> >>> See macos.pl:
$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 1; >>> $Conf{RsyncShareName}
= [ '/Users/username' ]; >>> $Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = [ '-e',
'$sshPath -l username' ]; >>> >> In reviewing again your
settings I see that you have the nightly >> period
configured as a per host value to do a full traverse as I >>
do, but for my system this is configured on the server and
not by >> client. I also see that your: '$sshPath -l
username' lists >> username. For my setup that username is
backuppc for all clients. >> Do you have different usernames
configured for each client? >> >> One thing I've noticed in
the nightly process is that even with the >> setting to
traverse the whole pool in one night it seems that I'll >>
get a big prune (4-5) G's late in the weekly cycle. >> >> --
Jim KR > The other thing that I noticed is that your rsync
args is missing the option:
--protect-args
This may be important to BackupPC's operation. It is
recommended that you not change the rsync arguments from
their default in the supplied config.pl
I was guilty of modifying the defaults and it took me three
months to clear the backups of deleted data across four
backup disks.
--
Jim KR
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