Hi there, On Thu, 13 Nov 2025, J?rg Ehrchen wrote:
... It was indeed due to the missing rsync client path. I saved it with the correct entry in the config, initiated a backup, and it is working as it should. :)
:)
Now I just have to figure out, why the rsync client path was deleted from the config files. It definitely wasn't me.
I hope I'm wrong, but... That's rather worrying. To my eyes, the change looks very much more like an intentional edit than some side-effect of a process going off the reservation and writing random rubbish to random files. So I have to wonder if it was deliberate and unauthorized. Assuming that you'd have told us if anyone else had the ability (and permission) to make such a change, to me this smells like ransomware. For obvious reasons, the first things that an attacker will do if he's any good (and some of them are *very* good) will be to kill your virus detection and clobber your backups. Scrambling all your files isn't much use to him if you can just recover them from your backups. If I were you I'd want to make sure that my backup server wasn't under attack. My Windows boxes would be amongst the first suspects. If I had Windows boxes on the same network segment as my backup server they would not be allowed to make changes to the backup configuration, nor would they be allowed to delete backups. There's a case for copying the backup pool to offline storage - after verifying that it's good. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
