I have files on the server that is running BackupPC that I would like to
back up. I see from the sourceforge faq that this is possible, and there
is a good example for using tar:
https://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html
The files that I want to backup are under the /raid folder, except that I
want to exclude the files in /raid/share/tmp:
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/raid';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/raid/share/tmp';
I was able to get the BackupPC tar transfer method working on the
localhost. So far so good.
I would like to set this up for the rsync transfer method since there are a
lot of files to back up and rsync is supposed to be more efficient in a
number of ways. I made the following changes to the host config file:
$Conf{XferMethod} = "rsync";
$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = "sudo /usr/bin/rsync";
$Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = ['-e', ''];
I have also added a line to the sudoers file
backuppc ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync
When I try to run a backup it fails and I end up with the following error
message in the log file:
Running: /usr/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /var/lib/BackupPC/
--bpc-host-name phoenix --bpc-share-name /raid --bpc-bkup-num 1
--bpc-bkup-comp 3 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1
--bpc-bkup-inode0 9040190 --bpc-log-level 1 --bpc-attrib-new -e
--rsync-path=sudo\ /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 --iconv=utf8,UTF-8 --timeout=72000
--include=/raid --exclude=/\* --exclude=/raid/share/tmp phoenix:/raid/ /
incr backup started for directory /raid
Xfer PIDs are now 24843
This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/bin/rsync_bpc
rsync_bpc: Failed to exec phoenix: No such file or directory (2)
Any ideas about what is going wrong here? The localhost is named phoenix,
and 'ping phoenix' works, as does 'nslookup phoenix'.
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