Hello all, I've got a problem running rdiff-backup as a cron job.
I followed these instructions http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/UnattendedRdiff Here is my cron tab entry 30 21 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/home/pas /copies/xen1-bcn/pas Here is .ssh/authorized_keys2 on the primary machine command="rdiff-backup --server" ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIw......... and here is .ssh/config on the mirror machine host xen1-bcn hostname 192.168.172.130 identityfile /root/.ssh/id_rsa_backup compression yes cipher blowfish protocol 2 the key in mirror /root/.ssh/id_rsa_backup is the same as primary .ssh/authorized_keys2 The first night this ran, everything got copied ok as I can see in session_statistics. StartTime 1149278282.00 (Fri Jun 2 21:58:02 2006) EndTime 1149406523.93 (Sun Jun 4 09:35:23 2006) ElapsedTime 128241.93 (35 hours 37 minutes 21.93 seconds) .... TotalDestinationSizeChange 10161156812 (9.46 GB) Errors 0 But since then, I am not getting any more session_statistics files or backup.log or increments or anything. However, when I run the same command from the command line: /usr/bin/rdiff-backup -v 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]::/home/pas /copies/xen1-bcn/pas It starts to copy. So I changed the cron to startup while I'm sitting and xen1-bcn watching ip traffic and I can see an ssh connection get created, some data gets exchanged and then it closes. I thought that might be an auth problem but #tail auth.log on xen1-bcn says: Jun 7 09:25:54 xen-bcn1 sshd[13362]: Accepted publickey for root from 192.168.1.5 port 32799 ssh2 Jun 7 09:25:54 xen-bcn1 sshd[13365]: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0) I've set verbosity at -v 9 hoping to see something else but I can't find the output in a file anywhere. This opening and closing of the ssh connection makes me think of auth problems but it did work the first night, and /var/log/auth is not reporting errors. Any help please? Thanks. Chris. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
