Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

[Bzzzz]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:37:52 +0300
Anton Torkunov  wrote:

> Hi all!

Hi you!!

> I forgot to say that I have 3.3.0 version installed from Ubuntu 14.x
> repositories.

Hmm, memory lapses are precursors to the Alzheimer disease…

> Thanks for suggestions: I asked  Robert Duval tomb and his say that i
> need to install last version of BackupPC from GitHub. I did it and now
> everything is fine!

Glad to read that!
You should be careful about ubuntu because they package non-stable
versions of many softwares, leading to "some (direct) problems" and also
sometimes bad interactions.
For servers stability sake, you'd prefer using the original: Debian.

> Jean-Yves, just for clarify - orange.vpn - it just name inside my
> private VPN ;)

Who knows what' in orange people's heads…

JY

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

[Anton Torkunov]

Hi all!
I forgot to say that I have 3.3.0 version installed from Ubuntu 14.x
repositories.
Thanks for suggestions: I asked  Robert Duval tomb and his say that i need
to install last version of BackupPC from GitHub. I did it and now
everything is fine!
Jean-Yves, just for clarify - orange.vpn - it just name inside my private
VPN ;)


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:24 PM, B  wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:18:40 +0300
> Anton Torkunov  wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone!
>
> Hi alone!!
>
> > I've tried to backup host via rsyncd, but got error:  Backup aborted
> > (unexpected response: '')
> >
> > rsyncd is well configured, because If I try to run just rsync,
> > everything is fine:
> >
> > rsync  rsync://orange.vpn/root/
>
> I suspect some very bad black magic here.
>
> As you know, or should know, 'orange' is the name of a telecom
> monopolistic company formerly called 'france telecom' in france, as such,
> these people are very angry and resentful because they lost their
> privileges when this company was privatized.
> So, in order to get back their former position and revenge, they swear to
> indefinitely devote themselves to the mighty god "unanswered
> call" and goddess "twisted pair copper" (very filthy this one).
>
> So, as my BPC crystal balls say, there is a very high possibility they
> took offense of your machine name, stole you the digital equivalent of a
> beard hair or hair strand in the form of a byte from your browser and
> stuffed it in a tux puppet representing your computer.
> To achieve their miserable goal, they hired a very cruel and powerful
> Russo-Chinese warlock, who's in fact half Béninois (from Bénin) by the
> cousin of the half-sister's of his grand-aunt's cleaning lady.
> As you know, or should know, Bénin was formerly called Dahomet and is
> considered to be the mother country of voodoo.
> So, each time you try to BPC you're machine, he plunges little darts in
> his tux puppet and mutter a devilish incantation to make your live
> miserable.
>
> So, your only solution is to jump in a plane going to Haïti and once
> there, ask for Robert Duval tomb, but you can only ask a 34 years old
> virgin ginger girl born on February 29th, and you must do this at
> exactly midnight a night of full moon.
> Once you'll know where it is, you'll have to wait for the next red moon
> and be standing in front of the grave at 11:47:29PM precisely, then
> you'll have to sing the salve regina three times in a row not missing a
> music note, a word and sing them in the right tune - DO NOT accelerate
> the tempo, it would amplify the problem, making it almost impossible to
> solve. Then you'll kneel and wait for Robert Duval to raise from the dead
> (NB: this might take some time, depending on his mood, YMMV.)
>
> When he'll be out, you will ask him how to get rid of this curse, but
> the most important is to NOT forget to offer him a little goat (less
> than 1 year old but more than 11 months and 25 days) named Patricia
> that you brought with you, because not doing so would nullify your
> quest.
>
> Once you'll get your answer, you'll only have 2 hours to go back home
> and ward the curse off, otherwise you'll have to do it all over again
> from the beginning. Your chances of success can be evaluated to ~8%;
> there is another way to achieve that, but it is so terrible that nobody
> wants to talk about it.
>
> > 64 bytes from orange (192.168.220.27): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=8.25 ms
> > --- orange.vpn ping statistics ---
> > 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 8.259/8.259/8.259/0.000 ms
>
> I guess this terrible timing is due to the VPN liaison
>
> > At the client side (rsyncd):
>
> Hmm, did you try with the rsync method instead of the rsyncd one?
> I remember, long time ago, I had some problems with rsyncd and BPC
> in the same LAN - may be it was my fault, may be not, my notes juste say
> not to use rsyncd.
>
> > Could you help me to fix the issue???
>
> Nope, it is in Robert Duval's hands from now.
>
> > Anton
>
> Jean-Yves
>
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

[Bzzzz]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:18:40 +0300
Anton Torkunov  wrote:

> Hello everyone!

Hi alone!!

> I've tried to backup host via rsyncd, but got error:  Backup aborted
> (unexpected response: '')
> 
> rsyncd is well configured, because If I try to run just rsync,
> everything is fine:
> 
> rsync  rsync://orange.vpn/root/

I suspect some very bad black magic here.

As you know, or should know, 'orange' is the name of a telecom
monopolistic company formerly called 'france telecom' in france, as such,
these people are very angry and resentful because they lost their
privileges when this company was privatized.
So, in order to get back their former position and revenge, they swear to
indefinitely devote themselves to the mighty god "unanswered
call" and goddess "twisted pair copper" (very filthy this one).

So, as my BPC crystal balls say, there is a very high possibility they
took offense of your machine name, stole you the digital equivalent of a
beard hair or hair strand in the form of a byte from your browser and
stuffed it in a tux puppet representing your computer.
To achieve their miserable goal, they hired a very cruel and powerful
Russo-Chinese warlock, who's in fact half Béninois (from Bénin) by the
cousin of the half-sister's of his grand-aunt's cleaning lady.
As you know, or should know, Bénin was formerly called Dahomet and is
considered to be the mother country of voodoo.
So, each time you try to BPC you're machine, he plunges little darts in
his tux puppet and mutter a devilish incantation to make your live
miserable.

So, your only solution is to jump in a plane going to Haïti and once
there, ask for Robert Duval tomb, but you can only ask a 34 years old
virgin ginger girl born on February 29th, and you must do this at
exactly midnight a night of full moon.
Once you'll know where it is, you'll have to wait for the next red moon
and be standing in front of the grave at 11:47:29PM precisely, then
you'll have to sing the salve regina three times in a row not missing a
music note, a word and sing them in the right tune - DO NOT accelerate
the tempo, it would amplify the problem, making it almost impossible to
solve. Then you'll kneel and wait for Robert Duval to raise from the dead
(NB: this might take some time, depending on his mood, YMMV.)

When he'll be out, you will ask him how to get rid of this curse, but
the most important is to NOT forget to offer him a little goat (less
than 1 year old but more than 11 months and 25 days) named Patricia
that you brought with you, because not doing so would nullify your
quest.

Once you'll get your answer, you'll only have 2 hours to go back home
and ward the curse off, otherwise you'll have to do it all over again
from the beginning. Your chances of success can be evaluated to ~8%;
there is another way to achieve that, but it is so terrible that nobody
wants to talk about it.

> 64 bytes from orange (192.168.220.27): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=8.25 ms
> --- orange.vpn ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 8.259/8.259/8.259/0.000 ms

I guess this terrible timing is due to the VPN liaison

> At the client side (rsyncd):

Hmm, did you try with the rsync method instead of the rsyncd one?
I remember, long time ago, I had some problems with rsyncd and BPC
in the same LAN - may be it was my fault, may be not, my notes juste say
not to use rsyncd.

> Could you help me to fix the issue???

Nope, it is in Robert Duval's hands from now.

> Anton

Jean-Yves

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

[Michael Stowe]

On 2017-09-06 07:18, Anton Torkunov wrote:

Hello everyone!
I've tried to backup host via rsyncd, but got error:  Backup aborted
(unexpected response: '')

rsyncd is well configured, because If I try to run just rsync,
everything is fine:

rsync  rsync://orange.vpn/root/
...
the listing files is here
...


It's a good troubleshooting step.  Was this run from the same host?  
What does your rsyncd.conf look like?



Next, I've tried to run BackupPC_dump:
su backuppc -c "/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f
orange.vpn"

cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 orange.vpn
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING orange.vpn (192.168.220.27)
56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from orange (192.168.220.27): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=8.25 ms

--- orange.vpn ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 8.259/8.259/8.259/0.000 ms
...

CheckHostAlive: returning 9.026
full backup started for directory root

started full dump, share=root
Connected to orange.vpn:873, remote version 31
Negotiated protocol version 28
Error connecting to module root at orange.vpn:873: unexpected
response: ''
Got fatal error during xfer (unexpected response: '')
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 orange.vpn
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING orange.vpn (192.168.220.27)
56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from orange (192.168.220.27): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=7.38 ms
...
CheckHostAlive: returning 11.452
Backup aborted (unexpected response: '')
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the
prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
dump failed: unexpected response: ''



==
At the client side (rsyncd):

2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] name lookup failed for 192.168.220.23 [1]:
Name or service not known
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] connect from UNKNOWN (192.168.220.23)
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] rsync on root/ from UNKNOWN
(192.168.220.23)
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] building file list
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] sent 459 bytes  received 29 bytes  total
size 0
2017/09/06 17:12:59 [5305] name lookup failed for 192.168.220.23 [1]:
Name or service not known
2017/09/06 17:12:59 [5305] connect from UNKNOWN (192.168.220.23)
2017/09/06 17:13:04 [5305] rsync: safe_read failed to read 1 bytes
[Receiver]: Connection reset by peer (104)
2017/09/06 17:13:04 [5305] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data
stream (code 12) at io.c(276) [Receiver=3.1.1]
===

Could you help me to fix the issue???


It may be instructive to examine the client side log from your 
successful session to see what's different.
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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd method does not work: (unexpected response: '')

[Anton Torkunov]

Hello everyone!
I've tried to backup host via rsyncd, but got error:  Backup aborted
(unexpected response: '')

rsyncd is well configured, because If I try to run just rsync, everything
is fine:

rsync  rsync://orange.vpn/root/
...
the listing files is here
...

Next, I've tried to run BackupPC_dump:
su backuppc -c "/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f orange.vpn"


cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 orange.vpn
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING orange.vpn (192.168.220.27)
56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from orange (192.168.220.27): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=8.25 ms

--- orange.vpn ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 8.259/8.259/8.259/0.000 ms
...
CheckHostAlive: returning 9.026
full backup started for directory root
started full dump, share=root
Connected to orange.vpn:873, remote version 31
Negotiated protocol version 28
Error connecting to module root at orange.vpn:873: unexpected response: ''
Got fatal error during xfer (unexpected response: '')
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 orange.vpn
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING orange.vpn (192.168.220.27)
56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from orange (192.168.220.27): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=7.38 ms
...
CheckHostAlive: returning 11.452
Backup aborted (unexpected response: '')
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior
one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
dump failed: unexpected response: ''

==
At the client side (rsyncd):
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] name lookup failed for 192.168.220.23: Name or
service not known
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] connect from UNKNOWN (192.168.220.23)
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] rsync on root/ from UNKNOWN (192.168.220.23)
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] building file list
2017/09/06 17:10:52 [4780] sent 459 bytes  received 29 bytes  total size 0
2017/09/06 17:12:59 [5305] name lookup failed for 192.168.220.23: Name or
service not known
2017/09/06 17:12:59 [5305] connect from UNKNOWN (192.168.220.23)
2017/09/06 17:13:04 [5305] rsync: safe_read failed to read 1 bytes
[Receiver]: Connection reset by peer (104)
2017/09/06 17:13:04 [5305] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream
(code 12) at io.c(276) [Receiver=3.1.1]
===
Could you help me to fix the issue???

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd and selinux

[Kenneth Porter]

I just fought through dealing with errors in my backup due to attempting to 
back up sockets and wanted to share my solution.


Here's an example of the error message:

rsync: readlink_stat("/var/spool/postfix/private/tlsmgr" (in root)) failed: 
Permission denied (13)


(Postfix creates a directory full of sockets for all its processes, so I 
got quite a few errors in that directory.)


On CentOS 7 I found I needed this:

setsebool -P rsync_full_access 1

You may also need:

setsebool -P rsync_export_all_ro 1

I'd prefer to just enable read-only access but that doesn't allow the 
readlink_stat needed to back up a socket. (I don't see a man page for that. 
Is that API part of BackupPC or rsync?)


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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

[Michael Stowe]

On 2016-04-13 03:29, Benjamin Redling wrote:
> Sadly coming back for the same reason:
> 
> On 03/29/2016 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote:
>> On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote:
>>> my exclude list seems to be defunct [...] XferMethod is rsyncd,
>>> shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this?
> 
>> No,
> [...]
>> If you want to exclude anything in a subdirectory named tmp, then 
>> 'tmp/'
>> should do the trick.
> 
> No variant works in my case -- tmp/, tmp/***, */tmp/*, home =>
> /tmp/
> 
> If anybody is using the same package successfully I would be happy to
> not annoy the package maintainer and keep trying to understand what I 
> am
> doing wrong.

Start with the basics:  xferlog.  You'll want to review your excludes in 
two ways.  First, you'll want to confirm that they show up here:


Sent exclude: Users/*/AppData/Local/Temp/*


If you don't see that, or it's munged, the problem isn't the syntax or 
format of your exclusions, so much as your config file isn't expressing 
exclusions to rsync.  Once you do that, you should see (or perhaps fail 
to see) lower in the file, lines that correspond to the regular 
expression:


create d 770544/18   0 
Users/Administrator.Luffy/AppData/Local/Temp


As you see from the above, this is NOT a match for the regex, but any 
files IN the directory would be.  This happens to be what we want, since 
on a recovery of the user, we probably want to recover the directory but 
we don't care about temp files.  We confirm below that no files within 
the directory are backed up.

If we selected a more restrictive exclude, such as ending at "Temp", we 
wouldn't expect this line to appear at all.


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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

[Benjamin Redling]

Sadly coming back for the same reason:

On 03/29/2016 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote:
> On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote:
>> my exclude list seems to be defunct [...] XferMethod is rsyncd, 
>> shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this?

> No,
[...]
> If you want to exclude anything in a subdirectory named tmp, then 'tmp/'
> should do the trick.

No variant works in my case -- tmp/, tmp/***, */tmp/*, home =>
/tmp/

If anybody is using the same package successfully I would be happy to
not annoy the package maintainer and keep trying to understand what I am
doing wrong.

>> Did a restart of backuppc after every change.
> 
> That's unnecessary.

I avoided that at first. But when all variants (tmp/, */tmp/* tmp/***)
failed I made sure no process was running an restarted backuppc.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

[Benjamin Redling]

On 2016-03-29 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote:
> On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote:
>> [...] /tmp subdirectories and absolute
>> paths (/anonuser... see below) are filling up the discs.
>> XferMethod is rsyncd, shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this?

> No, '*/tmp' will avoid backing up any files named "tmp" or any empty
> subdirectories named "tmp" as long as they are NOT in the root of the
> share -- but it will not exclude any files IN directories named "tmp",
> which, from your description, is probably what you want.

Ok, I reread the section "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" of the rsync
man page in hope to grasp the patterns.

There it says:
"
a  trailing "dir_name/***" will match both the directory (as if
"dir_name/" had been specified) and everything in the directory (as
if  "dir_name/**"  had been specified). This behavior was added in
version 2.6.7.
"

So, to my understanding tmp/*** (and all the other dirs accordingly)
should be the correct pattern.

[...]
> Also note that exclude paths are relative, so if you want to match /tmp
> in the root of the share, the proper exclude to use is simply 'tmp'.
[...]
> If you want to exclude anything in a subdirectory named tmp, then 'tmp/'
> should do the trick.

I need the later case, tmp in the home dirs.
Thanks for pointing to the importance of the trailing slash!
Maybe I changed more that I am willing to admit to myself and even
worse: this wasn't part of config. management /version control
-- really bad.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

[Michael Stowe]

On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> my exclude list seems to be defunct since adding a few absolute paths
> via the web interface. Recently(?) /tmp subdirectories and absolute
> paths (/anonuser... see below) are filling up the discs.
> XferMethod is rsyncd, shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this?

No, '*/tmp' will avoid backing up any files named "tmp" or any empty 
subdirectories named "tmp" as long as they are NOT in the root of the 
share -- but it will not exclude any files IN directories named "tmp", 
which, from your description, is probably what you want.

It may help to imagine that rsync makes a list of files and directories 
relative to the share, and then applies your excludes to it to eliminate 
things from that list.  As you might guess, */tmp doesn't match a lot of 
things on that list such as tmp/filename.

Also note that exclude paths are relative, so if you want to match /tmp 
in the root of the share, the proper exclude to use is simply 'tmp'.

If you want to exclude anything in a subdirectory named tmp, then 'tmp/' 
should do the trick.

> Did a restart of backuppc after every change.

That's unnecessary.

>> From the config.pl:
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '*' => [
> '*/tmp',
> '*/.cache',
> '*/temp',
> '*/Cache',
> '*/cache',
> '/anonuser1/usenet-de/per-group',
> '/anonuser2/sub-dir1/sub-dir2/models',
> '/anonuser3/downloads',
> '*/privat*',
> '*/ImapMail',
> '*.iso',
> '*.ISO',
> '*/.macromedia',
> '*/.local/share/Trash',
> '*.ogg',
> '*.OGG',
> '*.mp3',
> '*.MP3',
> '*.mp4',
> '*.MP4'
>   ]
> };
> 
> I've also tried putting the new paths to an explicitly defined share:
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '*' => [
> '*/tmp',
> '*/.cache',
> '*/temp',
> '*/Cache',
> '*/cache'
>   ],
>   'home' => [
> '/anonuser1/usenet-de/per-group',
> '/anonuser2/sub-dir1/sub-dir2/models',
> '/anonuser3/downloads',
> '*/privat*',
> '*/ImapMail',
> '*.iso',
> '*.ISO',
> '*/.macromedia',
> '*/.local/share/Trash',
> '*.ogg',
> '*.OGG',
> '*.mp3',
> '*.MP3',
> '*.mp4',
> '*.MP4'
>   ]
> };
> 
> BackupPC 3.2.1-2ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, x86_64
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

(see above)  I assume the extension exclusions are more-or-less working 
as you expect them to.  You may want to review the Xferlog.

> Regards,
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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd excludes problem (3.2.1)

[Benjamin Redling]

Hello everybody,

my exclude list seems to be defunct since adding a few absolute paths
via the web interface. Recently(?) /tmp subdirectories and absolute
paths (/anonuser... see below) are filling up the discs.
XferMethod is rsyncd, shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this?
Did a restart of backuppc after every change.

>From the config.pl:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  '*' => [
'*/tmp',
'*/.cache',
'*/temp',
'*/Cache',
'*/cache',
'/anonuser1/usenet-de/per-group',
'/anonuser2/sub-dir1/sub-dir2/models',
'/anonuser3/downloads',
'*/privat*',
'*/ImapMail',
'*.iso',
'*.ISO',
'*/.macromedia',
'*/.local/share/Trash',
'*.ogg',
'*.OGG',
'*.mp3',
'*.MP3',
'*.mp4',
'*.MP4'
  ]
};

I've also tried putting the new paths to an explicitly defined share:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  '*' => [
'*/tmp',
'*/.cache',
'*/temp',
'*/Cache',
'*/cache'
  ],
  'home' => [
'/anonuser1/usenet-de/per-group',
'/anonuser2/sub-dir1/sub-dir2/models',
'/anonuser3/downloads',
'*/privat*',
'*/ImapMail',
'*.iso',
'*.ISO',
'*/.macromedia',
'*/.local/share/Trash',
'*.ogg',
'*.OGG',
'*.mp3',
'*.MP3',
'*.mp4',
'*.MP4'
  ]
};

BackupPC 3.2.1-2ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, x86_64

What am I doing wrong?

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[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

[Marko Doda]

When configuring an rsyncd host with the username being the same as the
backuppc cgi user that is saved the browser autofills the password that is
used for the cgi interface, you can delete it and write your own but
pressing save saves the autofilled password.
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

[Marko Doda]

Actually the issue is that the browser saves from data from rsyncd user and
pass fields as page login information. Is this a bug?

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 When configuring an rsyncd host with the username being the same as the
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

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 Actually the issue is that the browser saves from data from rsyncd user and
 pass fields as page login information. Is this a bug?

Browsers will pre-populate credentials with what they have cached for
the same authentication domain (Apache''s 'AuthName' setting), if you
previously said to save it.   I don't understand why you would have
used those credentials in that context or saved them, though.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

[Marko Doda]

I accidentally saved the credentials for rsync, isn't it better to turn off
the save password dialog for rsync credentials?

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 On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Marko Doda ma...@lugola.net wrote:
  Actually the issue is that the browser saves from data from rsyncd user
 and
  pass fields as page login information. Is this a bug?

 Browsers will pre-populate credentials with what they have cached for
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 previously said to save it.   I don't understand why you would have
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd user and password field gets confused as a login form

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 I accidentally saved the credentials for rsync, isn't it better to turn off
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That part is done by the client browser - which should also have a way
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Micha Kersloot]

Hi,

You could also go from raid1 to raid10.

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 Verzonden: Donderdag 31 oktober 2013 04:13:42
 Onderwerp: Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup
 
 On 31/10/13 13:56, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
  Hi Adam,
 
  The low I/O is when the machine is under load.
 
  Thank you for suggesting to use SSD. I have been thinking about that
  as well, but currently, the storage of BackupPC is using a 1TB disk,
  with about 80% utilization.
 
  Changing to 1TB SSD might be a little bit overkill on the customer's
  budget :)
 
 Sure, 2 x 480GB SSD in linear RAID is still relatively expensive :)
 though it certainly is a huge performance improvement. BTW, FYI, I get
 2.5GB/s read and 1.5GB/s write performance from my RAID5...
 
  Maybe I should look at bcache for Linux :)
 
  https://lwn.net/Articles/497024/
  http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/
 
 I've seen that also, but I'm not sure it is a good (stable) solution for
 real use (at least, I'm not prepared to use that for a server yet, your
 tolerance might be different). In addition, it probably won't help the
 backup work load, since you need to read the entire disk, and the entire
 disk won't fit into the cache
 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

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Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote on 10/30/2013 
10:06:18 PM:

 Hi Holger,

 Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine 
 actually suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is 
 about 3 MB/s, which I considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE emulation.

*REAL* slow:  I consider anything under 20MB/s slow.

But where did that number come from?  The pattern of reads will make a 
*huge* difference...

 I'm planning to suggest to the customer to have a RAID 1 setup to 
 increase the I/O speed. I'm looking at possibilities to speed things
 up by not having to change the overall setup.

I think you might want to have a better idea of what is going on first 
before you just start throwing hardware at it.  If your numbers were 
correct but still too slow I'd say sure.  But your numbers are *broken* 
wrong.  You *might* fix your problem (by accident!) by throwing away some 
pieces and adding others, but you might not, too.  Then you've got a 
client that just spent a bunch of money for nothing...

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan]

Hi Timothy,

I got the number by observing the output of iotop while file transfer is
running. Also, on BackupPC host summary page, average transfer rate for
full backup is also around 3MB/s

It could be a network bottleneck also, as the customer is using 100Mbps
switch with around 80 PC, not including network printer and servers.
Inclusive should be around 100 network devices.

Any idea how to properly troubleshoot network bottleneck? My skill is a
little bit lacking on that area.

Thanks.



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 Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote on 10/30/2013
 10:06:18 PM:

  Hi Holger,

  Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine
  actually suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is
  about 3 MB/s, which I considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE emulation.

 *REAL* slow:  I consider anything under 20MB/s slow.

 But where did that number come from?  The pattern of reads will make a
 *huge* difference...

  I'm planning to suggest to the customer to have a RAID 1 setup to
  increase the I/O speed. I'm looking at possibilities to speed things
  up by not having to change the overall setup.

 I think you might want to have a better idea of what is going on first
 before you just start throwing hardware at it.  If your numbers were
 correct but still too slow I'd say sure.  But your numbers are *broken*
 wrong.  You *might* fix your problem (by accident!) by throwing away some
 pieces and adding others, but you might not, too.  Then you've got a client
 that just spent a bunch of money for nothing...

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Holger,

 Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine actually
 suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is about 3 MB/s, which I
 considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE emulation.

Where are you getting that number?   hdparm -tT  device_partition_name
should show about 30MB/s for the lower number even for old IDEs and at
least 2 or 3x that for SATA with a SATA controller - even old ones.

 I'm planning to suggest to the customer to have a RAID 1 setup to increase
 the I/O speed. I'm looking at possibilities to speed things up by not having
 to change the overall setup.

RAID1 is a good idea to protect against a single drive failure, but it
won't make a lot of difference in speed.  Writes go to both, reads can
overlap if the software is smart.   But, if you are currently running
RAID5, using bigger disks in RAID1 would help.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Timothy J Massey]

Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote on 10/31/2013 
02:38:01 PM:

 Hi Timothy,

 I got the number by observing the output of iotop while file 
 transfer is running. Also, on BackupPC host summary page, average 
 transfer rate for full backup is also around 3MB/s

 It could be a network bottleneck also, as the customer is using 
 100Mbps switch with around 80 PC, not including network printer and 
 servers. Inclusive should be around 100 network devices.

For file transfers, 100Mb/s is good for 7MB/s transfer rate.  Assuming a 
good quality switch (which is a *big* assumption), the number of computers 
shouldn't matter.

But I would think strongly about buying a good quality Gigabit switch (I 
recommend the HP V1910-24G) as your backbone:  Plug all of your servers 
(including the BackupPC server) into it, as well as each of your 100Mb/s 
switches (even better if they have Gb uplink ports!).  That would 
eliminate the network as a bottleneck and only costs $300.  And improve 
network performance across the board, though your users may not notice it 
if they only work with small files.

 Any idea how to properly troubleshoot network bottleneck? My skill 
 is a little bit lacking on that area.

Sure:  Time the copying of files from one machine to another.  Assuming 
the source and destination hard drives are faster than 7MB/s (and they 
very well *better* be!), then you'll saturate a 100Mb network no problem.

For a more scientific approach, check out iperf.

I'd be *much* more worried about checking out your *disk* performance. You 
can do tests in exactly the same way:  copy files to and from the disk and 
see what happens.  Here are some very simple examples:

sync; time dd if=/dev/zero of=test.fil bs=1M count=1024; sync; sync; sync;
sync; time dd if=test.fil of=/dev/null bs=1M

The first line times the writing of a 1GB file named test.fil.  The second 
one times the reading of the same 1GB file.  Divide 1024 by the number of 
seconds it takes and that will give you the MB/s that you transferred. 
(The sync command is needed for accurate timing;  the three sync commands 
is kind of an old UNIX graybeard joke:  
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5260/is-there-truth-to-the-philosophy-that-you-should-sync-sync-sync-sync
 
)

If you want more scientific disk performance information, check out iozone 
or iometer.

Remember:  always profile before you optimize.  ( 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Holger Parplies]

Hi,

Adam Goryachev wrote on 2013-10-29 15:29:42 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd 
full backup]:
 On 29/10/13 15:14, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
  [...]
 On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com 
 mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
 sharuzza...@gmail.com mailto:sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote:
  [...]
  Initially, the backup transport is SMB, but recently, I noticed
  a lot of machine backup (full and incremental) is not able to
  complete in 8 hours, due to large number of file, and big file size.
 
  Last week, I installed DeltaCopy (rsycnd server for Windows) on
  one machine, and change the backup transport to rysncd. The backup
  runs well.
 
  But today, I noticed, when BackupPC is running a full backup on
  the machine that have rsyncd, it still takes 8 hours to do full
  backup. [...]
 Rsync will only transfer the changed data, but in full runs the
 contents of the files are read at both ends and compared with block
 checksums, so it takes some time. [...]
 
 In essence, if I enable
 |--checksum-seed=32761
 
 |
 then the rsync full backup will be faster?
 
 Yes, the third full backup after you enable that option will be faster 
 *IF* the slow speed is due to the backup server needing to decompress 
 the file and check the content.

let me stress that again: don't expect a speedup on the *first* full backup
after you enable that option. In my limited opinion (I haven't compared speeds
because I don't have any issues with slow backups), the *second* full backup
should be faster, as you have pre-existing full backups, i.e. the next full
can add the checksums. In any case, the *third* full backup should hopefully
be faster :-).

 In the case that your backup client has really slow disk, then there is 
 nothing you can do, except maybe modify backuppc for full backups to not 
 send the ignore-times option to rsync (ie, every backup is an 
 incremental). Or, of course, upgrade the client to improve performance.

Actually, it is worth noting that aside from a possible speed improvement the
switch from smb to rsync(d) gives you far more precise *incremental* backups,
so it might be an option to increase FullPeriod. This may transfer more data
(because the delta is always relative to the reference backup - normally the
previous full backup - and not to the previous incremental backup), but you
can always explore the IncrLevels setting. So, while you might not speed up
the full runs, you might get away with doing them less often. I would not
recommend patching the ignore-times option away altogether.

But Adams point is correct: you need to find out where the problem is, before
you can fix it. While you might be able to find the problem by trying out
fixes, that might not be the most efficient way :-).

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan]

Hi Holger,

Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine actually
suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is about 3 MB/s, which
I considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE emulation.

I'm planning to suggest to the customer to have a RAID 1 setup to increase
the I/O speed. I'm looking at possibilities to speed things up by not
having to change the overall setup.

Thank you for providing new insights to me regarding rsync. Glad to learn
new things :)

Thanks.


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 Hi,

 Adam Goryachev wrote on 2013-10-29 15:29:42 +1100 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
 rsyncd full backup]:
  On 29/10/13 15:14, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
   [...]
  On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
  mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
  sharuzza...@gmail.com mailto:sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote:
   [...]
   Initially, the backup transport is SMB, but recently, I noticed
   a lot of machine backup (full and incremental) is not able to
   complete in 8 hours, due to large number of file, and big file
 size.
  
   Last week, I installed DeltaCopy (rsycnd server for Windows) on
   one machine, and change the backup transport to rysncd. The backup
   runs well.
  
   But today, I noticed, when BackupPC is running a full backup on
   the machine that have rsyncd, it still takes 8 hours to do full
   backup. [...]
  Rsync will only transfer the changed data, but in full runs the
  contents of the files are read at both ends and compared with block
  checksums, so it takes some time. [...]
  
  In essence, if I enable
  |--checksum-seed=32761
  
  |
  then the rsync full backup will be faster?
 
  Yes, the third full backup after you enable that option will be faster
  *IF* the slow speed is due to the backup server needing to decompress
  the file and check the content.

 let me stress that again: don't expect a speedup on the *first* full backup
 after you enable that option. In my limited opinion (I haven't compared
 speeds
 because I don't have any issues with slow backups), the *second* full
 backup
 should be faster, as you have pre-existing full backups, i.e. the next full
 can add the checksums. In any case, the *third* full backup should
 hopefully
 be faster :-).

  In the case that your backup client has really slow disk, then there is
  nothing you can do, except maybe modify backuppc for full backups to not
  send the ignore-times option to rsync (ie, every backup is an
  incremental). Or, of course, upgrade the client to improve performance.

 Actually, it is worth noting that aside from a possible speed improvement
 the
 switch from smb to rsync(d) gives you far more precise *incremental*
 backups,
 so it might be an option to increase FullPeriod. This may transfer more
 data
 (because the delta is always relative to the reference backup - normally
 the
 previous full backup - and not to the previous incremental backup), but you
 can always explore the IncrLevels setting. So, while you might not speed up
 the full runs, you might get away with doing them less often. I would not
 recommend patching the ignore-times option away altogether.

 But Adams point is correct: you need to find out where the problem is,
 before
 you can fix it. While you might be able to find the problem by trying out
 fixes, that might not be the most efficient way :-).

 Regards,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Adam Goryachev]

On 31/10/13 13:06, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
 Hi Holger,

 Based on short session of troubleshooting, I believe the machine
 actually suffer from low I/O speed to the disk. Average read is about
 3 MB/s, which I considered slow for a SATA disk in IDE emulation.

Is that under load, or while idle? If it is under load, then it might be 
expected, remember throughput is very bad for HD when you have random 
load due to seek times.

If it is idle and has that performance level, then there is something 
wrong. Even old IDE disks could do at least 30 to 50MB/s for large 
contiguous reads.

 I'm planning to suggest to the customer to have a RAID 1 setup to
 increase the I/O speed. I'm looking at possibilities to speed things
 up by not having to change the overall setup.
While RAID1 will assist in reliability and is one strategy to reduce 
downtime/data loss (but it isn't a backup), it also is not going to 
improve performance. With RAID1 you still need to write to both disks, 
and while it is theoretically possible to balance reads across both 
disks, it likely won't do that well without a proper hardware raid 
controller.

Personally, my suggestion would be to consider using a SSD, since you 
are using such an old drive, probably you don't need a lot of space, so 
a 120GB SSD might be suitable. An SSD will handle random IO 
significantly better than any one or two drive system, with much higher 
transfer rates as well (there is no penalty for seek times with SSD).

Again, personally, I've used a couple of systems with 5 x 480GB Intel 
520s SSD in RAID5, and they have been working really well (except they 
were difficult to actually get stock of them most of this year, and I 
hear they are now replaced by a new model).

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Adam Goryachev]

On 31/10/13 13:56, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
 Hi Adam,

 The low I/O is when the machine is under load.

 Thank you for suggesting to use SSD. I have been thinking about that
 as well, but currently, the storage of BackupPC is using a 1TB disk,
 with about 80% utilization.

 Changing to 1TB SSD might be a little bit overkill on the customer's
 budget :)

Sure, 2 x 480GB SSD in linear RAID is still relatively expensive :) 
though it certainly is a huge performance improvement. BTW, FYI, I get 
2.5GB/s read and 1.5GB/s write performance from my RAID5...

 Maybe I should look at bcache for Linux :)

 https://lwn.net/Articles/497024/
 http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/

I've seen that also, but I'm not sure it is a good (stable) solution for 
real use (at least, I'm not prepared to use that for a server yet, your 
tolerance might be different). In addition, it probably won't help the 
backup work load, since you need to read the entire disk, and the entire 
disk won't fit into the cache

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan]

Hi,

I have implemented BackupPC for my customer.

Initially, the backup transport is SMB, but recently, I noticed a lot of
machine backup (full and incremental) is not able to complete in 8 hours,
due to large number of file, and big file size.

Last week, I installed DeltaCopy (rsycnd server for Windows) on one
machine, and change the backup transport to rysncd. The backup runs well.

But today, I noticed, when BackupPC is running a full backup on the machine
that have rsyncd, it still takes 8 hours to do full backup.

Which is I considered weird, because rsync suppose to compare that full
backup, with the previous full backup (or previous full + incremental), so
that only modified file is transferred.

That is my expectation when I plan to use rsyncd.

Any explanation why BackupPC is not running in this way? Any configuration
that I can changed to make it work like what I expect?

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I have implemented BackupPC for my customer.

 Initially, the backup transport is SMB, but recently, I noticed a lot of
 machine backup (full and incremental) is not able to complete in 8 hours,
 due to large number of file, and big file size.

 Last week, I installed DeltaCopy (rsycnd server for Windows) on one machine,
 and change the backup transport to rysncd. The backup runs well.

 But today, I noticed, when BackupPC is running a full backup on the machine
 that have rsyncd, it still takes 8 hours to do full backup.

 Which is I considered weird, because rsync suppose to compare that full
 backup, with the previous full backup (or previous full + incremental), so
 that only modified file is transferred.

 That is my expectation when I plan to use rsyncd.

 Any explanation why BackupPC is not running in this way? Any configuration
 that I can changed to make it work like what I expect?


Rsync will only transfer the changed data, but in full runs the
contents of the files are read at both ends and compared with block
checksums, so it takes some time.  Incrementals runs will quickly skip
files where the file timestamps and lengths are identical.   See the
section on 'Rsync checksum caching' in
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html regarding a way to
avoid having to read/uncompress on the server side after 2 fulls have
completed, but the data is always read on the target side.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd full backup

[Adam Goryachev]

On 29/10/13 15:14, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:

Hi Les,


Thanks.|
|


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com 
mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
sharuzza...@gmail.com mailto:sharuzza...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I have implemented BackupPC for my customer.

 Initially, the backup transport is SMB, but recently, I noticed
a lot of
 machine backup (full and incremental) is not able to complete in
8 hours,
 due to large number of file, and big file size.

 Last week, I installed DeltaCopy (rsycnd server for Windows) on
one machine,
 and change the backup transport to rysncd. The backup runs well.

 But today, I noticed, when BackupPC is running a full backup on
the machine
 that have rsyncd, it still takes 8 hours to do full backup.

 Which is I considered weird, because rsync suppose to compare
that full
 backup, with the previous full backup (or previous full +
incremental), so
 that only modified file is transferred.

 That is my expectation when I plan to use rsyncd.

 Any explanation why BackupPC is not running in this way? Any
configuration
 that I can changed to make it work like what I expect?


Rsync will only transfer the changed data, but in full runs the
contents of the files are read at both ends and compared with block
checksums, so it takes some time.  Incrementals runs will quickly skip
files where the file timestamps and lengths are identical. See the
section on 'Rsync checksum caching' in
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html regarding a way to
avoid having to read/uncompress on the server side after 2 fulls have
completed, but the data is always read on the target side.

In essence, if I enable
|--checksum-seed=32761

|
then the rsync full backup will be faster?


Yes, the third full backup after you enable that option will be faster 
*IF* the slow speed is due to the backup server needing to decompress 
the file and check the content.


In the case that your backup client has really slow disk, then there is 
nothing you can do, except maybe modify backuppc for full backups to not 
send the ignore-times option to rsync (ie, every backup is an 
incremental). Or, of course, upgrade the client to improve performance.


Regards,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

[Travis Schwenke]

Well, I guess it is *SOLVED*...

I didn't change how the service was running.  Since I couldn't see any
differences in the directories or privileges I decided to try something
else.  I went to the rsyncd.conf file on the client and setup three shares
that match the directories I was trying to backup.  I realize this could
mean that (especially the user directory) might restore to the wrong place,
that is ok, as long as I can get to the backup.

It worked *PERFECT*.  Ran right through the three shares and backed them
up.  Not exactly sure why it wasn't working the other way.  For this one
client, I don't mind having the extra step of creating the shares, it is
not something that is going to change.

Thanks!  And thanks for the confirmation on the rsyncd user/pass meaning
nothing, I figured it was a doesn't matter, but wasn't sure, that is why I
matched it to my ID on the system just in case it was slipping through
somehow.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Michael Stowe
mst...@chicago.us.mensa.orgwrote:


  So, it looks like rsyncd is running as:
Local System account
 
  I guess I could switch that to run as my domain account on the machine.
   Just not sure if I should use all commands from cygwin shell to kill
 this
  one and start another or just change it from the windows gui (IF
 NEEDED)..

 You have a few alternatives, which involve matching up the user that
 rsync[d] is running as to the permissions on the directories you'd like to
 synchronize.  The Local System account usually doesn't have access to
 domain directories, but they can be granted; alternatively, you can run
 rsyncd as a domain user.

  I compared the directories and the properties and they all look the same
  (well, my user directory was slightly different, but expected).  It ran
 an
  incremental last night and I changed what user I was passing over in
 the
  rsyncd setup (and changed the conf to reflect that user) and it looks
 like
  it did the exact same thing, as in only looked at the one directory.

 To clarify:  the rsyncd user -- the one in rsyncd.conf -- does not
 actually relate to anything in any way except allowing connections to
 rsync.  It's not a cygwin, Windows, or domain user.  Although it can be
 named the same, you can easily just use hoobydooby and everything will
 work the same.

  Being my work machine, my ID is from the domain and while I they give us
  admin privileges, there are still some things we can't do, like add a
  local user.  The ID I used this time was my domain ID in the rsyncd setup
  to try to see if it was an issue with that.

 As above, you need to run rsyncd as the domain user; the user in
 rsyncd.conf is inherently meaningless.

  Also, changed the log level on the client and the log looks exactly the
  same. Actually the log files look pretty clean.  It is really like it is
  almost not even trying to do the other two directories.

 From the description, it's likely that this is the case, as the local
 system user wouldn't even be able to traverse the directories without
 permission.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

[Travis Schwenke]

So, it looks like rsyncd is running as:
  Local System account

I guess I could switch that to run as my domain account on the machine.
 Just not sure if I should use all commands from cygwin shell to kill this
one and start another or just change it from the windows gui (IF NEEDED)..

I compared the directories and the properties and they all look the same
(well, my user directory was slightly different, but expected).  It ran an
incremental last night and I changed what user I was passing over in the
rsyncd setup (and changed the conf to reflect that user) and it looks like
it did the exact same thing, as in only looked at the one directory.

Being my work machine, my ID is from the domain and while I they give us
admin privileges, there are still some things we can't do, like add a local
user.  The ID I used this time was my domain ID in the rsyncd setup to try
to see if it was an issue with that.

Also, changed the log level on the client and the log looks exactly the
same. Actually the log files look pretty clean.  It is really like it is
almost not even trying to do the other two directories.

Thanks
Travis Schwenke
Once again confused.. but learning... :)

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Michael Stowe
mst...@chicago.us.mensa.orgwrote:



  So, my goal was going to be rsync on all machines, I seem to have that
  working fine now on my windows machines, but my work laptop is part of a
  domain so I figured I would try rsyncd and learn how it worked in the
  process.  It is trying to backup, but it is not following my rules
  correctly.  It is only grabbing one of my directories and I am not sure
  why!
  It is only getting the /eng_apps area and not the other two, this was
  working fine with smb.
 
 
 
  Start of the LOG file
 
  full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #12)
 
  Connected to machine:873, remote version 30
 
  Negotiated protocol version 28
 
  Connected to module root
 
  Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D
  --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times
  .
  .
 
  Sent include: /users
 
  Sent include: /users/wzpcnt
 
  Sent include: /data
 
  Sent include: /eng_apps
 
  Sent exclude: /*
 
  Sent exclude: /users/*
 
 
 
  Rsyncd.conf on machine in c:\cygwin\etc
 
  gid = users
 
  read only = true
 
  use chroot = false
 
  transfer logging = false
 
  log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
 
  log format = %h %o %f %l %b
 
  hosts allow = x.x.x.x
 
  hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
 
  strict modes = false
 
  [root]
 
  path = /cygdrive/c/
 
  auth users = backuppc
 
  secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secret
 
 
 
 
 
  machine.pl (I did everything via the CGI I see some smb settings are
 still
  in the file, I omitted them this paste, I hope they are not causing the
  issue)
 
  $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
 
'*' = [
 
  '/users/me',
 
  '/data',
 
  '/eng_apps'
 
]
 
  };
 
  $Conf{ClientCharset} = 'cp1252';
 
  $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
 
'root'
 
  ];
 
  $Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = 'xxx';
 
  $Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backuppc';
 
  $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
 
 
 
 
 
  So why is it only getting ONE of the directories I specified?

 Under which user account is rsyncd running?  My first guess would be that
 it is a permission problem.

 It may be enlightening to turn transfer logging on.


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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

[Michael Stowe]

 So, it looks like rsyncd is running as:
   Local System account

 I guess I could switch that to run as my domain account on the machine.
  Just not sure if I should use all commands from cygwin shell to kill this
 one and start another or just change it from the windows gui (IF NEEDED)..

You have a few alternatives, which involve matching up the user that
rsync[d] is running as to the permissions on the directories you'd like to
synchronize.  The Local System account usually doesn't have access to
domain directories, but they can be granted; alternatively, you can run
rsyncd as a domain user.

 I compared the directories and the properties and they all look the same
 (well, my user directory was slightly different, but expected).  It ran an
 incremental last night and I changed what user I was passing over in the
 rsyncd setup (and changed the conf to reflect that user) and it looks like
 it did the exact same thing, as in only looked at the one directory.

To clarify:  the rsyncd user -- the one in rsyncd.conf -- does not
actually relate to anything in any way except allowing connections to
rsync.  It's not a cygwin, Windows, or domain user.  Although it can be
named the same, you can easily just use hoobydooby and everything will
work the same.

 Being my work machine, my ID is from the domain and while I they give us
 admin privileges, there are still some things we can't do, like add a
 local user.  The ID I used this time was my domain ID in the rsyncd setup
 to try to see if it was an issue with that.

As above, you need to run rsyncd as the domain user; the user in
rsyncd.conf is inherently meaningless.

 Also, changed the log level on the client and the log looks exactly the
 same. Actually the log files look pretty clean.  It is really like it is
 almost not even trying to do the other two directories.

From the description, it's likely that this is the case, as the local
system user wouldn't even be able to traverse the directories without
permission.

 Thanks
 Travis Schwenke
 Once again confused.. but learning... :)


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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

[Michael Stowe]

 So, my goal was going to be rsync on all machines, I seem to have that
 working fine now on my windows machines, but my work laptop is part of a
 domain so I figured I would try rsyncd and learn how it worked in the
 process.  It is trying to backup, but it is not following my rules
 correctly.  It is only grabbing one of my directories and I am not sure
 why!
 It is only getting the /eng_apps area and not the other two, this was
 working fine with smb.



 Start of the LOG file

 full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #12)

 Connected to machine:873, remote version 30

 Negotiated protocol version 28

 Connected to module root

 Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D
 --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times
 .
 .

 Sent include: /users

 Sent include: /users/wzpcnt

 Sent include: /data

 Sent include: /eng_apps

 Sent exclude: /*

 Sent exclude: /users/*



 Rsyncd.conf on machine in c:\cygwin\etc

 gid = users

 read only = true

 use chroot = false

 transfer logging = false

 log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log

 log format = %h %o %f %l %b

 hosts allow = x.x.x.x

 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0

 strict modes = false

 [root]

 path = /cygdrive/c/

 auth users = backuppc

 secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secret





 machine.pl (I did everything via the CGI I see some smb settings are still
 in the file, I omitted them this paste, I hope they are not causing the
 issue)

 $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {

   '*' = [

 '/users/me',

 '/data',

 '/eng_apps'

   ]

 };

 $Conf{ClientCharset} = 'cp1252';

 $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [

   'root'

 ];

 $Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = 'xxx';

 $Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backuppc';

 $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';





 So why is it only getting ONE of the directories I specified?

Under which user account is rsyncd running?  My first guess would be that
it is a permission problem.

It may be enlightening to turn transfer logging on.

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[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd cygwin Problem..

[Travis.Schwenke]

So, my goal was going to be rsync on all machines, I seem to have that
working fine now on my windows machines, but my work laptop is part of a
domain so I figured I would try rsyncd and learn how it worked in the
process.  It is trying to backup, but it is not following my rules
correctly.  It is only grabbing one of my directories and I am not sure why!
It is only getting the /eng_apps area and not the other two, this was
working fine with smb.

 

Start of the LOG file

full backup started for directory root (baseline backup #12)

Connected to machine:873, remote version 30

Negotiated protocol version 28

Connected to module root

Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D
--links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times .
.

Sent include: /users

Sent include: /users/wzpcnt

Sent include: /data

Sent include: /eng_apps

Sent exclude: /*

Sent exclude: /users/*

 

Rsyncd.conf on machine in c:\cygwin\etc

gid = users

read only = true

use chroot = false

transfer logging = false

log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log

log format = %h %o %f %l %b

hosts allow = x.x.x.x

hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0

strict modes = false

[root]

path = /cygdrive/c/

auth users = backuppc

secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secret

 

 

machine.pl (I did everything via the CGI I see some smb settings are still
in the file, I omitted them this paste, I hope they are not causing the
issue)

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {

  '*' = [

'/users/me',

'/data',

'/eng_apps'

  ]

};

$Conf{ClientCharset} = 'cp1252';

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [

  'root'

];

$Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = 'xxx';

$Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backuppc';

$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';

 

 

So why is it only getting ONE of the directories I specified?

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd backup fails with Can't write to socket

[Russell Poyner]

 From the XferLog file:

Can't write 13944 bytes to socket
Read EOF: Operation timed out
Tried again: got 0 bytes
finish: removing in-process file filename removed
Child is aborting
Done: 502 files, 43008274 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)

The server is a freeBSD 9.1 system, and the client is a windows 7 
machine running the DeltaCopy rsync service.

The file in question *may* have been an open file, since the owner was 
logged in at the time.

Anyone know how to get one of these backups to actually complete?

Thanks
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd backup fails with Can't write to socket

[Michael Stowe]

  From the XferLog file:

 Can't write 13944 bytes to socket
 Read EOF: Operation timed out
 Tried again: got 0 bytes
 finish: removing in-process file filename removed
 Child is aborting
 Done: 502 files, 43008274 bytes
 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)

 The server is a freeBSD 9.1 system, and the client is a windows 7
 machine running the DeltaCopy rsync service.

 The file in question *may* have been an open file, since the owner was
 logged in at the time.

 Anyone know how to get one of these backups to actually complete?

 Thanks
 RP

I'd normally expect rsync to skip over open files with a warning; you may
be running into a DeltaCopy bug, or it may react badly to certain
semantics for open files.

The proper way to copy open files is using Shadow Copies, but rsync
presents an interesting conundrum, because the shadow copy has to be
available before rsync is started, so running an rsync service probably
won't work (unless you go to the trouble or writing your own
rsync-compatible, non-Cygwin, VSS-capable service, I guess.  DeltaCopy is
not such a thing.)

At any rate, there are at least two VSS/rsync based solutions, but I'm not
aware of an rsync service working with open files at all.

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd on mac

[Eduardo Díaz Rodríguez]

Negotiated protocol version 28


Hi I see that the File-RsyncP-0.70 only runs to Protocol version 28. 
but I see interesting facts for backup MAC systems.

the default mac version 2.6.8 is very slow in my test.

I put the last version of rsync 3.0.7 and see a speed improbe.

My questions are two.

1, What is the best and the faster option for backup remote files?? 
(rsync or rsyncd) for me is rsyncd.

for example.

two full

rsync 2.6.8(mac version) 541593.5 (files in MB) TIME: 448.1
rsync 3.0.7(https://github.com/MacLemon/mlbackup/) 543157.5 (files in 
MB) TIME: 276.1.
use the last version becasue is more faster...

2,  There is any chances that the File-RsyncP perl module future 
support protocol 30 in a future?

Regards!

P.D. anybody make test?

Is interesting put this in wiki? I have the complete manual for make 
rsyncd running in MAC OS. ;-)




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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

[Alexander Moisseev]

SOLVED

17.06.2010 12:05, Alexander Moisseev пишет:

 I had resolve the problem by adding extra 512 MB of RAM.


But problem back again after a few days.

Solution:

The default hard datasize limit on FreeBSD is 512MB.  To raise it, put this in 
/boot/loader.conf and reboot:
kern.maxdsiz=1G

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

[Matthias Meyer]

Alexander Moisseev wrote:

 I have BackupPC configured to backup several directories on the same
 server as different BackupPC hosts. It works without a problem more than 2
 years. But now backup of one directory interrupts during transfer when it
 still works normally for other ones.
 

There are a lot of problems with rsyncd in windows. At least with cygwin
prior V1.7.
I found a lot of information (but no solution) about this in different
mailing lists within the last two years :-(
So it is very interesting that it does work with cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0,
Windows Server 2003 Std R2.

I use rsync instead rsyncd and happy with that.

Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) means that your
cygwin-rsyncd die.
You should increase log verbosity on cygwin-rsyncd and check against this
log.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

[Alexander Moisseev]

Matthias Meyer wrote:
 So it is very interesting that it does work with cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0,
 Windows Server 2003 Std R2.

I have no problem  with one at all.
  
 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) means that your
 cygwin-rsyncd die.
 You should increase log verbosity on cygwin-rsyncd and check against this
 log.

I had overlook this lines in BackupPC log:

2010-06-11 04:04:13 1s_trade_at_phoenix: Out of memory during large request 
for 16781312 bytes, total sbrk() is 529952768 bytes at 
/usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm line 203.
2010-06-11 04:04:19 Backup failed on 1s_trade_at_phoenix (Child exited 
prematurely)

It seems that when BackupPC tries to _decompress_ 342 MB file from pool it 
consumes all available RAM and swap.
(I had 1G RAM + 1G swap). I had resolve the problem by adding extra 512 MB of 
RAM.

But the directory that I am backing up is only about 1000 Files and 2.5 GB and 
the biggest file is 342 MB. Is BackupPC really needs so much memory? Or it is 
memory leaks?




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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

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Alexander Moisseev wrote:
 Matthias Meyer wrote:
 So it is very interesting that it does work with cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0,
 Windows Server 2003 Std R2.
 
 I have no problem  with one at all.
   
 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) means that your
 cygwin-rsyncd die.
 You should increase log verbosity on cygwin-rsyncd and check against this
 log.
 
 I had overlook this lines in BackupPC log:
 
 2010-06-11 04:04:13 1s_trade_at_phoenix: Out of memory during large request 
 for 16781312 bytes, total sbrk() is 529952768 bytes at 
 /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/FileZIO.pm line 203.
 2010-06-11 04:04:19 Backup failed on 1s_trade_at_phoenix (Child exited 
 prematurely)
 
 It seems that when BackupPC tries to _decompress_ 342 MB file from pool it 
 consumes all available RAM and swap.
 (I had 1G RAM + 1G swap). I had resolve the problem by adding extra 512 MB of 
 RAM.
 
 But the directory that I am backing up is only about 1000 Files and 2.5 GB 
 and the biggest file is 342 MB. Is BackupPC really needs so much memory? Or 
 it is memory leaks?

Are you running a 64-bit perl on the server?  I think it consumes much more 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

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Les Mikesell wrote:
 Are you running a 64-bit perl on the server?  I think it consumes much more
 memory than a 32 bit instance would.

No, my hardware have no support 64-bit at all.

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd, Parent read EOF from child

[Alexander Moisseev]

I have BackupPC configured to backup several directories on the same server as 
different BackupPC hosts. It works without a problem more than 2 years. But now 
backup of one directory interrupts during transfer when it still works normally 
for other ones.

Xfer Settings for all hosts (directories) is the same.
XferMethod is rcyncd.
BackupPC 3.1.0, FreeBSD 6.2
Client: cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0, Windows Server 2003 Std R2


Transfer log:

Contents of file /data/BackupPC/pc/1s_trade_at_phoenix/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 
2010-06-11 10:19:09

full backup started for directory dDrive (baseline backup #987)
Connected to phoenix:873, remote version 29
Negotiated protocol version 28
Connected to module dDrive
Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D 
--links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . .

 SKIPPED 

same 644   400/401  627185 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG351.DBF
   create   644   400/401   118901106 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG3549.DBF
   create   644   400/40159228634 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG405.DBF
   create   644   400/401   130588998 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG4314.DBF
Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
Saving this as a partial backup, replacing the prior one (got 161 and 0 files 
versus 0)
full backup started for directory dDrive; updating partial #988
Connected to phoenix:873, remote version 29
Negotiated protocol version 28
Connected to module dDrive
Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D 
--links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . .

 SKIPPED 

   same 644   400/401  627185 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG351.DBF
   create   644   400/401   118922578 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG3549.DBF
   create   644   400/40159228634 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG405.DBF
   create   644   400/401   130588998 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG4314.DBF
Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
Saving this as a partial backup
full backup started for directory dDrive; updating partial #988
Connected to phoenix:873, remote version 29
Negotiated protocol version 28
Got response: 92ee79e1345b080d93ceaa6b12a71b9a
in mime: ku554TRbCA2TzqprEqcbmg
Auth: got challenge: [removed], reply: backuppc [removed]
Connected to module dDrive
Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D 
--links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . .
Checksum seed is 1276236933
Got checksumSeed 0x4c11d485

 SKIPPED 

Starting file 648 (1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG4335.DBF), blkCnt=14989, 
blkSize=16384, remainder=13126
/data/BackupPC/pc/1s_trade_at_phoenix/987/fdDrive/f1s_db/fdb/ftrade/ft_mezon/fdb/fRG438.DBF
 cache = , invalid = , phase = 0
Sending csums for 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG438.DBF (size=157430)
/data/BackupPC/pc/1s_trade_at_phoenix/987/fdDrive/f1s_db/fdb/ftrade/ft_mezon/fdb/fRG4480.DBF
 cache = , invalid = , phase = 0
Sending csums for 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG4480.DBF (size=74355938)
/data/BackupPC/pc/1s_trade_at_phoenix/987/fdDrive/f1s_db/fdb/ftrade/ft_mezon/fdb/fRG464.DBF
 cache = , invalid = , phase = 0
Sending csums for 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG464.DBF (size=51968559)
Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
Sending csums, cnt = 149, phase = 1
/data/BackupPC/pc/1s_trade_at_phoenix/987/fdDrive/f1s_db/fdb/ftrade/ft_mezon/fdb/fRG4667.DBF
 cache = , invalid = , phase = 1
Sending csums for 1s_db/db/trade/t_mezon/db/RG4667.DBF (size=23992630)
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one 
(got 162 and 0 files versus 162)

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd restore issue

[Matthias Meyer]

Hello,

I have two files (both Access DB). One with 2MB and the other with 200MB.
Both are backed up with BackupPC 3.1.0 using rsyncd from my Windows-PC.
If I delete the 200MB file on my Windows-PC the restore need only some
minutes.
If I restore both, only the first one (2MB) will be restored.
After hours of duration I abort the restore process.

I've also tried to chmod ugo=rwx the files in front of a restore. But alos
without success.

I've tried loglevel=9 and checked the RestoreLOG.1.z (208MB).
Unfortunately I didn't found a error messages.

Any hint how to find the reason?

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

[Guido Schmidt]

Les Mikesell schrieb:
 Guido Schmidt wrote:
 So, what could cause BackupPC not to connect to the tunnel?

 
 I may have missed something in the thread, but did you change the ping 
 command 
 to something that would succeed?
 

Yes. The host is publicly available, I just put it's real name into

  $Conf{PingCmd} = '$pingPath -c 1 -w 3 host.example.com';

(Have a look at my first posting.)

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

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Chris Robertson schrieb:
 Guido Schmidt wrote:
 Matthias Meyer schrieb:
   
 Guido Schmidt wrote:

 
 Matthias Meyer wrote:
   
 Guido Schmidt wrote:
 
 What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
 What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on
 host.example.com.

 If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it
 with rsync as user backuppc on a shell providing the password by hand:

   rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backu...@localhost::Alles
   /home/backuppc/test/

   
 Do you provide the password during your script?
 
 The ssh-connection works (authenticated via public key). The password I
 refered to is for connecting to rsyncd and that is stored in
 $Conf{RsyncdPasswd}.

 It seems that backuppc does not reach the point where it actually tries
 to connect to rsync daemon. There are no entries in the rsyncd-log
 (there are when I use the rsync-command above). How can I find out more
 what happens and what not?

   
 I don't really know what the problem :-(
 You can increase the loglevel with $Conf{XferLogLevel}.
 
 I already increased it to 6, but that didn't give any more details.

   
 What happens if you start your tunnel interactive and leave DumpPreUser as 
 well
 as CmdDumpPostUserCmd empty.
 
 Okay, we're getting closer. That way the backup worked.
 So I either get BackupPC to open the tunnel or to do the backup. That's odd.
   
 
 I'd try giving an explicit exit value upon successful tunnel creation.
 
 ...
 --- /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol.orig2009-12-22 
 03:16:34.0 -0900
 +++ /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol 2009-12-22 03:17:09.0 -0900
 @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
if ! ps -ef|grep -E ^backuppc $PID ; then
  echo $PRG_NAME: Error: Tunnel does not exist
  exit 1
 +  else
 +echo $PRG_NAME: Info: Tunnel exists
 +exit 0
fi
  else
echo $PRG_NAME: Error: ${PIDFILE} already exists.

Although the script should already return 0 upon successfull completion
(and it does, I tried with echo ?) I'm so desperate I gave it a try,
but no, that didn't help.

So, what could cause BackupPC not to connect to the tunnel?

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

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Guido Schmidt wrote:
 
   
 I'd try giving an explicit exit value upon successful tunnel creation.

 ...
 --- /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol.orig2009-12-22 
 03:16:34.0 -0900
 +++ /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol 2009-12-22 03:17:09.0 -0900
 @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
if ! ps -ef|grep -E ^backuppc $PID ; then
  echo $PRG_NAME: Error: Tunnel does not exist
  exit 1
 +  else
 +echo $PRG_NAME: Info: Tunnel exists
 +exit 0
fi
  else
echo $PRG_NAME: Error: ${PIDFILE} already exists.
 
 Although the script should already return 0 upon successfull completion
 (and it does, I tried with echo ?) I'm so desperate I gave it a try,
 but no, that didn't help.
 
 So, what could cause BackupPC not to connect to the tunnel?
 

I may have missed something in the thread, but did you change the ping command 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

[Guido Schmidt]

Matthias Meyer schrieb:
 Guido Schmidt wrote:
 
 Matthias Meyer wrote:
 Guido Schmidt wrote:
 What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
 What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on
 host.example.com.

 If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it
 with rsync as user backuppc on a shell providing the password by hand:

   rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backu...@localhost::Alles
   /home/backuppc/test/

 Do you provide the password during your script?
 The ssh-connection works (authenticated via public key). The password I
 refered to is for connecting to rsyncd and that is stored in
 $Conf{RsyncdPasswd}.

 It seems that backuppc does not reach the point where it actually tries
 to connect to rsync daemon. There are no entries in the rsyncd-log
 (there are when I use the rsync-command above). How can I find out more
 what happens and what not?

 I don't really know what the problem :-(
 You can increase the loglevel with $Conf{XferLogLevel}.

I already increased it to 6, but that didn't give any more details.

 What happens if you start your tunnel interactive and leave DumpPreUser as 
 well
 as CmdDumpPostUserCmd empty.

Okay, we're getting closer. That way the backup worked.
So I either get BackupPC to open the tunnel or to do the backup. That's odd.

 Why do you need the identification by rsync? I would believe you can trust 
 your
 ssh-tunnel and dont't need an additional authentication.

There a users with shell-access to that host. Not protecting the port
would give them read-access to the whole file-system.

Guido

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

[Chris Robertson]

Guido Schmidt wrote:
 Matthias Meyer schrieb:
   
 Guido Schmidt wrote:

 
 Matthias Meyer wrote:
   
 Guido Schmidt wrote:
 
 What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
 What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on
 host.example.com.

 If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it
 with rsync as user backuppc on a shell providing the password by hand:

   rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backu...@localhost::Alles
   /home/backuppc/test/

   
 Do you provide the password during your script?
 
 The ssh-connection works (authenticated via public key). The password I
 refered to is for connecting to rsyncd and that is stored in
 $Conf{RsyncdPasswd}.

 It seems that backuppc does not reach the point where it actually tries
 to connect to rsync daemon. There are no entries in the rsyncd-log
 (there are when I use the rsync-command above). How can I find out more
 what happens and what not?

   
 I don't really know what the problem :-(
 You can increase the loglevel with $Conf{XferLogLevel}.
 

 I already increased it to 6, but that didn't give any more details.

   
 What happens if you start your tunnel interactive and leave DumpPreUser as 
 well
 as CmdDumpPostUserCmd empty.
 

 Okay, we're getting closer. That way the backup worked.
 So I either get BackupPC to open the tunnel or to do the backup. That's odd.
   

I'd try giving an explicit exit value upon successful tunnel creation.

...
--- /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol.orig2009-12-22 
03:16:34.0 -0900
+++ /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol 2009-12-22 03:17:09.0 -0900
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
   if ! ps -ef|grep -E ^backuppc $PID ; then
 echo $PRG_NAME: Error: Tunnel does not exist
 exit 1
+  else
+echo $PRG_NAME: Info: Tunnel exists
+exit 0
   fi
 else
   echo $PRG_NAME: Error: ${PIDFILE} already exists.
...

   
 Why do you need the identification by rsync? I would believe you can trust 
 your
 ssh-tunnel and dont't need an additional authentication.
 

 There a users with shell-access to that host. Not protecting the port
 would give them read-access to the whole file-system.

 Guido
   

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

[Guido Schmidt]

Matthias Meyer wrote:
 Guido Schmidt wrote:
 What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
 What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on
 host.example.com.

 If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it
 with rsync as user backuppc on a shell providing the password by hand:

   rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backu...@localhost::Alles
   /home/backuppc/test/

 Do you provide the password during your script?

The ssh-connection works (authenticated via public key). The password I
refered to is for connecting to rsyncd and that is stored in
$Conf{RsyncdPasswd}.

It seems that backuppc does not reach the point where it actually tries
to connect to rsync daemon. There are no entries in the rsyncd-log
(there are when I use the rsync-command above). How can I find out more
what happens and what not?

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

[Matthias Meyer]

Guido Schmidt wrote:

 Matthias Meyer wrote:
 Guido Schmidt wrote:
 What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
 What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on
 host.example.com.

 If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it
 with rsync as user backuppc on a shell providing the password by hand:

   rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backu...@localhost::Alles
   /home/backuppc/test/

 Do you provide the password during your script?
 
 The ssh-connection works (authenticated via public key). The password I
 refered to is for connecting to rsyncd and that is stored in
 $Conf{RsyncdPasswd}.
 
 It seems that backuppc does not reach the point where it actually tries
 to connect to rsync daemon. There are no entries in the rsyncd-log
 (there are when I use the rsync-command above). How can I find out more
 what happens and what not?
 
I don't really know what the problem :-(
You can increase the loglevel with $Conf{XferLogLevel}.
What happens if you start your tunnel interactive and leave DumpPreUser as well
as CmdDumpPostUserCmd empty.
Try your interactive:
  rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backu...@localhost::Alles 
/home/backuppc/test/

If it work, start a backup via BackupPC.

Why do you need the identification by rsync? I would believe you can trust your
ssh-tunnel and dont't need an additional authentication.

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

[Guido Schmidt]

Dear backuppc-users,

I'm happily using BackupPC 3.1.0 for quite a while.

I'm now trying to backup a public host (host.example.com) via an ssh-redirected 
port. I don't allow any command execution on that host (and therefore cannot 
use the wait command), so I wrote a script (sshtunnelcontrol, see below) to 
open and close the tunnel when needed. It is called as DumpPreUserCmd and 
DumpPostUserCmd. 

What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on 
host.example.com.

If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it with 
rsync as user backuppc on a shell providing the password by hand:

  rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backu...@localhost::Alles 
/home/backuppc/test/


XferMethod is rsyncd.
RsyncdClientPort is set to 873.

I double-checked the password in /etc/BackupPC/pc/host.example.com.pl.

Running

  /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f host.example.com

didn't give more information.


Thank you for any hint.
Guido



--- Begin of file /local/backup/pc/host.example.com/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 
2009-12-17 19:50:13 ---

Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol start 
host.example.com /usr/bin/ssh -CN 32323 localhost 873 backuppc 43868
SSH Tunnel Control: Opening tunnel
SSH Tunnel Control: /usr/bin/ssh -CN -L 32323:localhost:873 -l backuppc -p 
43868 host.example.com 
SSH Tunnel Control: Process ID is 24538
SSH Tunnel Control: Created /home/backuppc/sshtunnel-host.example.com.pid
SSH Tunnel Control: Checking for tunnel:
backuppc 24538 24537  0 19:50 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh -CN -L 
32323:localhost:873 -l backuppc -p 43868 host.example.com
incr backup started back to 2009-11-24 15:50:34 (backup #0) for directory Alles
Error connecting to rsync daemon at localhost:32323: inet connect: 
Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt
Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol stop host.example.com
SSH Tunnel Control: Killing Process 24538
SSH Tunnel Control: Done
SSH Tunnel Control: Deleting /home/backuppc/sshtunnel-host.example.com.pid
SSH Tunnel Control: Done
Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt)
Backup aborted (inet connect: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt)

--- End of file /local/backup/pc/host.example.com/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 
2009-12-17 19:50:13 ---



 Begin /etc/BackupPC/pc/host.example.com.pl --

$Conf{PingMaxMsec} = 400;
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
  '--numeric-ids',
  '--perms',
  '--owner',
  '--group',
  '-D',
  '--links',
  '--hard-links',
  '--times',
  '--block-size=2048',
  '--recursive',
  '--checksum-seed=32761'
];
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
  'Alles'
];
$Conf{XferLogLevel} = 3;
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
$Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backuppc';
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '/usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol start $client $sshPath 
-CN 32323 $host 873 backuppc 12345';
$Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} = '/usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol stop $client';
$Conf{RsyncdClientPort} = 32323;
$Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'localhost';
$Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = '';
$Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus} = '1';
$Conf{PingCmd} = '$pingPath -c 1 -w 3 host.example.com';

 End /etc/BackupPC/pc/host.example.com.pl --



 Begin /usr/local/bin/sshtunnelcontrol --
#!/bin/sh
TODO=$1
CLIENT=$2
SSH_PATH=$3
SSH_OPTS=$4
SSH_TUNNEL_PORT=$5
SSH_HOST=$6
RSYNC_PORT=$7
SSH_USER=$8
SSH_PORT=$9

PRG_NAME=SSH Tunnel Control
BASEDIR=/home/backuppc
PIDFILE=${BASEDIR}/sshtunnel-${CLIENT}.pid

case $TODO in
  start)
if [ ! -e ${PIDFILE} ]; then
  echo $PRG_NAME: Opening tunnel
  echo $PRG_NAME: $SSH_PATH $SSH_OPTS -L 
$SSH_TUNNEL_PORT:$SSH_HOST:$RSYNC_PORT -l $SSH_USER -p $SSH_PORT $CLIENT 
  $SSH_PATH $SSH_OPTS -L $SSH_TUNNEL_PORT:$SSH_HOST:$RSYNC_PORT -l 
$SSH_USER -p $SSH_PORT $CLIENT 1/dev/null 2/dev/null 
  #$SSH_PATH $SSH_OPTS -L $SSH_TUNNEL_PORT:$SSH_HOST:$RSYNC_PORT -l 
$SSH_USER -p $SSH_PORT $CLIENT 
  PID=$!
  echo $PRG_NAME: Process ID is $PID
  echo $PID  ${PIDFILE}   echo $PRG_NAME: Created ${PIDFILE}
  echo $PRG_NAME: Checking for tunnel:
  if ! ps -ef|grep -E ^backuppc $PID ; then
echo $PRG_NAME: Error: Tunnel does not exist
exit 1
  fi
else
  echo $PRG_NAME: Error: ${PIDFILE} already exists.
  exit 2
fi
;;
  stop)
if [ ! -e ${PIDFILE} ]; then
  echo $PRG_NAME: Error: Can not find process. $PIDFILE is missing.
  exit 3
else
  PID2KILL=`cat ${PIDFILE}`
  echo $PRG_NAME: Killing Process $PID2KILL
  kill -15 $PID2KILL  echo $PRG_NAME: Done
  echo $PRG_NAME: Deleting $PIDFILE
  rm $PIDFILE  echo $PRG_NAME: Done
fi
;;
  *)
  echo $PRG_NAME: Parameter-error
  exit 4
  ;;
esac
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd via ssh-redirected port

[Matthias Meyer]

Guido Schmidt wrote:

 Dear backuppc-users,
 
 I'm happily using BackupPC 3.1.0 for quite a while.
 
 I'm now trying to backup a public host (host.example.com) via an
 ssh-redirected port. I don't allow any command execution on that host (and
 therefore cannot use the wait command), so I wrote a script
 (sshtunnelcontrol, see below) to open and close the tunnel when needed. It
 is called as DumpPreUserCmd and DumpPostUserCmd.
 
 What works? The opening and closing of the tunnel.
 What does not? The connection to it. Nothing in the rsyncd-logs on
 host.example.com.
 
 If I leave DumpPostUserCmd empty the tunnel stays open and I can use it
 with rsync as user backuppc on a shell providing the password by hand:
 
   rsync -av --list-only --port=32323 backu...@localhost::Alles
   /home/backuppc/test/
 
Do you provide the password during your script?
I don't know how BackupPC can know the password for the ssh connection.
I believe $Conf{RsyncdUserName} and $Conf{RsyncdPasswd} refers to the rsync
secrets and not to the ssh connection.

I would suggest to use public/private key for ssh.

br
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

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Just for future reference:

I was just now able to get this working. I simply renamed the original
cygrunsrv.exe and cygwin1.dll with a -org in the name to differentiate with
the new version. I then downloaded the cygrunsrv stuff out of the cygwin
package and replaced those two files in the c:\rsyncd folder. Started the
service and WHAM!!! It works. thanks to all who assisted me with this issue.
While not a backuppc issue directly, it is helpful to those of us that
wanted to use the rsyncd setup on windows. I have the 2 files I replaced if
anyone else runs into this issue.



On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Erik Hjertén erik.hjer...@companion.sewrote:

 Kameleon skrev:
  I am trying to setup the standalone rsyncd from the backuppc downloads
  page on a 64 bit vista machine. I have done it already on about 5 32
  bit machines. Only this one fails to start the service. I see no error
  other than it trys to run and then nothing. Has anyone else ran into
  this issue and found a workaround? I don't want to use smb if I can
  help it. Thanks in advance.
 I'm running cygwin bundled in Deltacopy on Vista 64. I'm not sure if the
 Deltacopy team altered the cygwin-dlls in some way, but it works very
 well. I'm doing daily backups to a Linux based server running Backuppc
 via rsyncd. Deltacopy can be found here:
 http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

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Kameleon skrev:
 I am trying to setup the standalone rsyncd from the backuppc downloads 
 page on a 64 bit vista machine. I have done it already on about 5 32 
 bit machines. Only this one fails to start the service. I see no error 
 other than it trys to run and then nothing. Has anyone else ran into 
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 help it. Thanks in advance.
I'm running cygwin bundled in Deltacopy on Vista 64. I'm not sure if the 
Deltacopy team altered the cygwin-dlls in some way, but it works very 
well. I'm doing daily backups to a Linux based server running Backuppc 
via rsyncd. Deltacopy can be found here: 
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

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I am trying to setup the standalone rsyncd from the backuppc downloads page
on a 64 bit vista machine. I have done it already on about 5 32 bit
machines. Only this one fails to start the service. I see no error other
than it trys to run and then nothing. Has anyone else ran into this issue
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

[Alan McKay]

I definitely have had this issue on my machine at home and never did resolve it.

Fortunately I have Ubuntu Linux running on it now though, and no more
problems :)

But I am likely to hit this before too long here at work so will watch
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

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Also, I may not, I did the trick to run as administrator and no go. I get
the error:

cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
fashion.

If that helps any. I am making sure it is not a gremlin by deleting the
service and rebooting. Any other ideas? This works perfectly on 32-bit.



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 I definitely have had this issue on my machine at home and never did
 resolve it.

 Fortunately I have Ubuntu Linux running on it now though, and no more
 problems :)

 But I am likely to hit this before too long here at work so will watch
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on vista 64 bit

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

Kameleon wrote at about 15:19:03 -0600 on Tuesday, December 8, 2009:
  Also, I may not, I did the trick to run as administrator and no go. I get
  the error:
  
  cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1053:
  The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
  fashion.
  
  If that helps any. I am making sure it is not a gremlin by deleting the
  service and rebooting. Any other ideas? This works perfectly on 32-bit.

If cygrunsrv is not working, I would ask on the cygwin mailing list
because then we are really talking about a cygwin issue and not a
BackupPC issue - the cygwin developers are really very helpful and
prompt.

Also, before asking or trying anything else, if you haven't already, I
would try installing cygwin 1.7 (which is late beta now, about to go
public, and quite stable) since that is likely to be more up-to-date
and thus more Vista friendly.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd resume of partial backup retransmits many files

[Harald Amtmann]

 debian linux running BackupPC 3.1.0, client is Windows XP SP2 with rsync
 3.0.4 (for more details see below). 

 When I retrigger the full backup, a lot of large files are retransmitted

Update: All files are retransmitted: This is a log excerpt of the pc being 
backuped:

2009/10/22 02:16:00 [2244] send [192.168.5.9]  .musikproject/musik_u.db 
28868608 f?

From rsyncs doc this means:
 item transmitted to remote host
f item is a file
? property unknown
...

To cite from the rsync doc:
and (3) an unknown attribute replaces each letter with a ? (this can happen 
when talking to an older rsync)

So I think because of this rsync is retransmitting instead of finding that the 
files didn't change. It doesn't even try to checksum altough the logs on the 
other side indicate that checksums are sent (see previous mail).

Please help! What is wrong here?

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd resume of partial backup retransmits many files

[Harald Amtmann]

 I am trying to backup a machine over a low bandwidth connection. Server is
 debian linux running BackupPC 3.1.0, client is Windows XP SP2 with rsync
 3.0.4 (for more details see below). I am currently trying to run the initial
 full backup but it got interrupted twice already due to various reasons.
 When I retrigger the full backup, a lot of large files are retransmitted
 even though they have already been uploaded to the server and weren't even
 touched in the meantime.

To clarify: It seems rsync is uploading some of the previously uploaded files 
to the server again (see the log for one such a file in my previous mail). 
After the upload finished, backuppc determines that the hash is the same, 
detects the file to be in the pool already and goes to the next file. It does 
this for a whole lot of files. The first backup run was interrupted after about 
9 hours. When I restarted it, after about 5 hours it was still 
reuploading/rechecking files which have been uploaded in the first run.

Can anyone tell me what _should_ happen in this case? Maybe I didn't understand 
the workings of backuppc right and what I see is totally normal.


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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd resume of partial backup retransmits many files

[Harald Amtmann]

Hello,

I am trying to backup a machine over a low bandwidth connection. Server is 
debian linux running BackupPC 3.1.0, client is Windows XP SP2 with rsync 3.0.4 
(for more details see below). I am currently trying to run the initial full 
backup but it got interrupted twice already due to various reasons. When I 
retrigger the full backup, a lot of large files are retransmitted even though 
they have already been uploaded to the server and weren't even touched in the 
meantime. 

In the log excerpt below you can see the processing of a file that definitely 
has been uploaded already. I am not sure if rsync transmits the file completely 
again or if the blocksize is so very small that the blockhashes are almost as 
much data as the original file. Whatever it is, resuming takes wy too long.

Is it a problem to use rsyncd and pool compression in this scenario? Please 
help.

Regards,
Harald


Windows XP Client
-

rsync  version 3.0.4  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2008 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
append, ACLs, no xattrs, iconv, symtimes

rsyncd.conf
---

[d]
path = /cygdrive/d
comment = Documents and Settings
strict modes = false
auth users = baggub
secrets file = D:/Programme/develop/cygwin/etc/rsyncd.secrets
hosts allow = 192.168.5.9
read only = true
list = false



Debian Linux Server Log
---


full backup started for directory docsnsettings
Connected to therapy:873, remote version 30
Negotiated protocol version 28
Got response: 96c536dccfe269b730e0053c0bfd0561
in mime: lsU23M/iabcw4AU8C/0FYQ
Auth: got challenge: lcPTIMTn7tfds46eQF+PFw, reply: baggub 
lsU23M/iabcw4AU8C/0FYQ
Connected to module docsnsettings
Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D 
--links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . .
Checksum seed is 1255314593
Got checksumSeed 0x4ad294a1
[..]
Got file (244 of 387): .kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db
[..]
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/therapy/0/fdocsnsettings/f.kde/fshare/fapps/famarok/fcollection.db
 cache = , invalid = , phase = 0
Sending csums for .kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db (size=6002688)
[..]
Starting file 191 (.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db), blkCnt=2931, 
blkSize=2048, remainder=2048
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=, newData=4096, rxMatchBlk=0, 
rxMatchNext=0
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=2099, newData=0, rxMatchBlk=0, 
rxMatchNext=0
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=3, newData=0, rxMatchBlk=2099, 
rxMatchNext=2100
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=, newData=7168, rxMatchBlk=3, 
rxMatchNext=4
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=2097, newData=0, rxMatchBlk=, 
rxMatchNext=4
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=2099, newData=0, rxMatchBlk=2097, 
rxMatchNext=2098
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=, newData=23552, rxMatchBlk=2099, 
rxMatchNext=2100
[...]
rxMatchNext=2100
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=, newData=30720, rxMatchBlk=, 
rxMatchNext=2100
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db: blk=, newData=0, rxMatchBlk=, 
rxMatchNext=2100
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db got digests 
79fcd46f9cecf0e252718c1c0959dd2c vs 79fcd46f9cecf0e252718c1c0959dd2c
  pool 700 4294967295/4294967295 6002688 
.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db
attribSet(dir=fdocsnsettings/.kde/share/apps/amarok, file=collection.db, 
size=6002688, placeholder=)

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[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd --sparse flag

[Nigel Kendrick]

Hi,
 
Does backuppc support the --sparse flag for rsyncd remote backups -
searching for answers led me to 'probably not' in an old post.
 
If it is supported, any benefit of using it with my famous database backup
dumps?
 
Thanks
 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd --sparse flag

[Tino Schwarze]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:55:35AM +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote:

 Does backuppc support the --sparse flag for rsyncd remote backups -
 searching for answers led me to 'probably not' in an old post.

I don't know for sure, but I doubt it since BackupPC_dump will probably
just produce zeroes and compress them.

 If it is supported, any benefit of using it with my famous database backup
 dumps?

No, you wouldn't benefit since your database dumps will probably not
contain long chains of zero bytes.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

[Erik Hjertén]

Koen Linders skrev:
 I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in
 Vista 64 bit via rsyncd.

 http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

 Works without a problem atm. Easy to use and you can copy the files to other
 computers and easily register the service.

   
I second that. Works like a charm.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

[Bernhard Ott]

Koen Linders wrote:
 I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in
^^
It's Microsoft Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779522(WS.10).aspx

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

[Bernhard Ott]

Koen Linders wrote:
 I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in
 Vista 64 bit via rsyncd.
 
 http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp
 
 Works without a problem atm. Easy to use and you can copy the files to other
 computers and easily register the service.
 
 Greetings,
 Koen Linders

So I will have to  play around with DeltaCopy (yet another 
win-client-solution ;-))!

Thanks,
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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

[Bernhard Ott]

Hi,
anyone successfully using the SUA environment for backing up a windows 
vista 64bit client via ssh-rsync or rsyncd?
I failed running cygwin on Vista Business 6.0 64-bit and considered 
giving MS a chance ...

Any comments very much appreciated,

thanks in advance,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

[Koen Linders]

I don't know what you mean with SUA environment, but I use Deltacopy in
Vista 64 bit via rsyncd.

http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

Works without a problem atm. Easy to use and you can copy the files to other
computers and easily register the service.

Greetings,
Koen Linders

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Verzonden: dinsdag 18 augustus 2009 0:21
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Onderwerp: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Vista 64-bit cygwin vs SUA

Hi,
anyone successfully using the SUA environment for backing up a windows 
vista 64bit client via ssh-rsync or rsyncd?
I failed running cygwin on Vista Business 6.0 64-bit and considered 
giving MS a chance ...

Any comments very much appreciated,

thanks in advance,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

daniel wrote at about 10:53:23 -0400 on Thursday, May 21, 2009:
  
  Hi Joe,
  
  This is exactly what I am looking for at the moment. Can you please post you 
  changes?

Am I the only one who has NO CLUE what he is talking about?
- What exactly is the 'this' that you are looking for?
- Who is the 'you' that you want to post something? (Joe???)
- What 'changes' need to be posted?

And if you wanted something from a particular 'Joe' that only you two
know about, why spam the entire list?

I am beginning to sympathize with Holger's frustrations with Backup
Central and people who think this is a topic-based forum rather than a
mailing list.


  
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh

[Daniel Harvey]

Hi Jeffrey,

At the risk of spamming the list again, I apologise. I only joined the
list and the forum immediately before the post. And, I agree that I
*thought* this is a topic-based forum rather than a mailing list - I
went to www.backupcentral.com, selected the menu Forums and them Open
Source BackupPC - it looked like a forum to me. Now I know :-)

Anyway, the (mailing list) post I was referring to was 

http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/backuppc-21/rsyncd-over-ssh-79117/

which relates to running BackupPC using rsync's daemon mode tunnelled
over SSH. 

I've since got Joe's modifications which enable this and I'll let you
know how I get on. FYI, the key issue for me is that I want to tunnel
over SSH, but am not happy to allow un-checked root access to the target
machine(s) - rsync's daemon mode tunnelled over SSH is a good balance.

Cheers,
Daniel. 

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 15:35 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 daniel wrote at about 10:53:23 -0400 on Thursday, May 21, 2009:
   
   Hi Joe,
   
   This is exactly what I am looking for at the moment. Can you please post 
 you changes?
 
 Am I the only one who has NO CLUE what he is talking about?
 - What exactly is the 'this' that you are looking for?
 - Who is the 'you' that you want to post something? (Joe???)
 - What 'changes' need to be posted?
 
 And if you wanted something from a particular 'Joe' that only you two
 know about, why spam the entire list?
 
 I am beginning to sympathize with Holger's frustrations with Backup
 Central and people who think this is a topic-based forum rather than a
 mailing list.
 
 
   
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[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd and WinXP

[Peter Bloomfield]

Dear All,

I apologise for re-visiting this, but I am having difficulty backing up a WinXP 
machine over rync.

I am using Backuppc version 3.1.0, and cygwin's rsync on the WinXP box.

When I issue a fuill backup, I get the following message in backuppc

Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /home/backuppc/Bin/NotifyUsers -h  -u 
*...@ -m ** -c 0 -t full -s hr_info
Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed)
Backup aborted (chdir failed)

I have blanked out the email address, host and user for this email. I then went 
and looked on the WinXP
in the rsync.log file and I get the following message,

2009/05/01 16:39:23 [4024] rsync: chdir 
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/f:/Alvina_PET/HR_Info failed

Has anyone else seen this, or can someone point me in the direction of a 
solution, thanks

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd and WinXP

[Holger Parplies]

Hi,

Peter Bloomfield wrote on 2009-05-01 16:56:45 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd 
and WinXP]:
 [...] backing up a WinXP machine over rync.

I take it that is actually missing a d as well as the s? ;-)

 [...]
   Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed)
   Backup aborted (chdir failed)
 
 [...] I then went and looked on the WinXP
 in the rsync.log file and I get the following message,
   
   2009/05/01 16:39:23 [4024] rsync: chdir 
 /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/f:/Alvina_PET/HR_Info failed
 
 Has anyone else seen this, or can someone point me in the direction of a
 solution, thanks

I take it your rsyncd.conf contains a path specification
f:/Alvina_PET/HR_Info. Apparently, rsyncd is interpreting
this as a relative path. You probably need to use something
like /cygdrive/f/Alvina_PET/HR_Info instead.

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd to import off site backup

[stoffell]

Hi all,

I'm using the import data for a backup on the wiki to import 20 GB of
files (I don't want to transfer that over xDSL). I just follow the tips and
tricks entry in the wiki. It did work before, but now I'm having an rsyncd
issue (I think). It might be possible that rsync has been updated, at the
moment it's 3.0.4.

As soon as I use the [/srv/] path, it doesn't work. Rsync logs this as
soon as I connect:
rsyncd[23507]: Warning: invalid section name in configuration file: /srv/

But when I use the [srv] path, it doesn't do that and just allows
connections.

The problem is that when I switch over to real backup, it won't be correct
since (in backuppc) we're using rsync and we need the '/srv' sharename.

Does anyone have any idea on how we can workaround this?


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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd to import off site backup

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

On 03/05 11:22 , stoffell wrote:
 rsyncd[23507]: Warning: invalid section name in configuration file: /srv/

Sure you're not missing a semicolon somewhere, or some other typo in the
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd to import off site backup

[stoffell]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom 
chr...@real-time.com wrote:

 On 03/05 11:22 , stoffell wrote:
  rsyncd[23507]: Warning: invalid section name in configuration file: /srv/

 Sure you're not missing a semicolon somewhere, or some other typo in the
 config files?


that's not the problem.

we managed to figure out why it doesn't work.

As of rsync v3.0.? the [/srv/] is not allowed anymore. You can only use
[srv], /'s are not allowed.

When using rsync v2.6.9 (on debian etch) it works without any problem.

So it's related to the version of rsync. :-(


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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd info

[Terry]

Hi I was just wondering what rsync does when running rsyncd on the 
client if a full backup fails.
Does it try and continue from where it left off on the next run ?
Also for the next full backup I assume it does a complete copy ?

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[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

[eric]

I just installed Rsyncd on my XP Pro machine and performed a full backup.
Fourty-eight hours later my drive seems hosed. I have run a drive check
and it won't complete, it sticks at 82%. The drive check as finding a
nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files.

To be fair I also allowed the Windows SP3 install in the same 48 hour
window between no problems and problems. I also allowed a Java upgrade. I
know, I know, what was I thinking!

Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive
going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended
problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other
problems to report?

Thanks,
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

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 nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files.
   


Bad clusters usually indicate a failing drive.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

[Rob Owens]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I just installed Rsyncd on my XP Pro machine and performed a full backup.
 Fourty-eight hours later my drive seems hosed. I have run a drive check
 and it won't complete, it sticks at 82%. The drive check as finding a
 nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files.
 
 To be fair I also allowed the Windows SP3 install in the same 48 hour
 window between no problems and problems. I also allowed a Java upgrade. I
 know, I know, what was I thinking!
 
 Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive
 going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended
 problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other
 problems to report?
 
I think the issue is that you had bad clusters, and one of the things
you installed happened to land on some of those bad clusters.  The bad
clusters probably went unnoticed until you tried to actually use them.

I've used rsyncd on a couple XP Pro machines with no problems.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

On 11/20 05:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive
 going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended
 problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other
 problems to report?

BackupPC puts substantial additional load on disks, because it forces them
to seek every file, and on a heavily fragmented filesystem this can add up
to a lot of head movement which would normally not take place. 

So a drive which might have been marginal before, might fail when you do the
backup of it. 

I've had this happen to me once or twice (once with disastrous consequences
when I found that the new external drive enclosure I was using for the backuppc
data pool was no good, so I lost the backup that caused the client disk to
fail, and then discovered that the LVM RAID I had been using to give me a
redundant client disk had stopped replicating a year before and not given me
any signs I recognized... fortunately it was only my own data, and not
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So be aware that this can happen.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

[dan]

disk failure brought on by stress.  thats my diagnostic.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 11/20 05:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive
  going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended
  problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other
  problems to report?

 BackupPC puts substantial additional load on disks, because it forces them
 to seek every file, and on a heavily fragmented filesystem this can add up
 to a lot of head movement which would normally not take place.

 So a drive which might have been marginal before, might fail when you do
 the
 backup of it.

 I've had this happen to me once or twice (once with disastrous consequences
 when I found that the new external drive enclosure I was using for the
 backuppc
 data pool was no good, so I lost the backup that caused the client disk to
 fail, and then discovered that the LVM RAID I had been using to give me a
 redundant client disk had stopped replicating a year before and not given
 me
 any signs I recognized... fortunately it was only my own data, and not
 someone else's that I lost).

 So be aware that this can happen.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

[Eric Snyder]

Makes sense. New drive is in now getting formatted. I will of course, 
see what I can salvage off the old drive. This computer was a used 
computer off ebay and shipped about 6 months ago, it may have had some 
head slap in shipping. That is why I think lots of drive activity 
causing the existing problem to show up makes sense.


One more thing...THANK GOD for BackupPC! Awesome software! I appreciate 
deeply that I have a set of critical files ready to be restored on the 
new drive. Thanks Craig (and whoever else) for doing this project.


Thanks,
Eric

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

On 11/20 05:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive
going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended
problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other
problems to report?



BackupPC puts substantial additional load on disks, because it forces them
to seek every file, and on a heavily fragmented filesystem this can add up
to a lot of head movement which would normally not take place. 


So a drive which might have been marginal before, might fail when you do the
backup of it. 


I've had this happen to me once or twice (once with disastrous consequences
when I found that the new external drive enclosure I was using for the backuppc
data pool was no good, so I lost the backup that caused the client disk to
fail, and then discovered that the LVM RAID I had been using to give me a
redundant client disk had stopped replicating a year before and not given me
any signs I recognized... fortunately it was only my own data, and not
someone else's that I lost).

So be aware that this can happen.

  




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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd - probability that it trashed my drive?

[dan]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Eric Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Makes sense. New drive is in now getting formatted. I will of course, see
 what I can salvage off the old drive. This computer was a used computer off
 ebay and shipped about 6 months ago, it may have had some head slap in
 shipping. That is why I think lots of drive activity causing the existing
 problem to show up makes sense.

 One more thing...THANK GOD for BackupPC! Awesome software! I appreciate
 deeply that I have a set of critical files ready to be restored on the new
 drive. Thanks Craig (and whoever else) for doing this project.

 Thanks,
 Eric


just to play devil's advocate here, you could also be looking at a bad
chipset.  I cant recall if you said it was SATA or IDE but heat buildup in
the case or a dislodged heatsink on some chipsets can lead to disk
corruption.  Consider looking in the case after the system has been running
for a while, is the chipset hot?  Is it too cool?  If it is too hot you may
just need to add a fan.  If it is too cool your heatsink may not be
attatched properly.  Also, power fluctuations in the power supply can lead
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP

[Rob Poe]

Eric Snyder wrote:
 I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am 
 trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is 
 that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group 
 Backup Operators. I do get files backed up but... The only files I get 
 in the Documents and Settings folder is the backup user's files 
 (basically empty). There are other users there and I need to get those 
 files backed up as well. There seems to be a permission problem and I 
 can't get the other users files backed up
 
I have a domain user as part of the backup group, called ... what else?  
Wait for it! 

backup

Here is my config.

[cDrive]
path = c:
comment = Entire Drive
auth users = backup
secrets file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.secrets
# hosts allow = 172.16.0.17
strict modes = false
read only = false
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[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP

[Eric Snyder]

I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am 
trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is 
that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group 
Backup Operators. I do get files backed up but... The only files I get 
in the Documents and Settings folder is the backup user's files 
(basically empty). There are other users there and I need to get those 
files backed up as well. There seems to be a permission problem and I 
can't get the other users files backed up.

How do I get all the users files backed up using Rsynced?

Config file:
[cDrive]
path = c:
comment = Entire Drive
auth users = removed,removed
secrets file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.secrets
# hosts allow = 172.16.0.17
strict modes = false
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd on XP

[Rob Owens]

Eric Snyder wrote:
 I was having problems with SMB on XP pro so have shifted gears and am 
 trying Rsyncd. I ran a full backup of the cDrive setup. The problem is 
 that I am using a backup user I created that is part of the user group 
 Backup Operators. I do get files backed up but... The only files I get 
 in the Documents and Settings folder is the backup user's files 
 (basically empty). There are other users there and I need to get those 
 files backed up as well. There seems to be a permission problem and I 
 can't get the other users files backed up.
 
 How do I get all the users files backed up using Rsynced?
 
 Config file:
 [cDrive]
 path = c:
 comment = Entire Drive
 auth users = removed,removed
 secrets file = c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.secrets
 # hosts allow = 172.16.0.17
 strict modes = false
 read only = true
 list = false
 

Does your rsyncd.conf file have a line like:

uid = someuser

This is the user that that the rsync daemon runs as.  Mine is set to be
my backup user.  I'm not sure what the default is, but if it's uid =
administrator, that might not give you enough rights to see everything.
 I'm pretty sure it needs to be run as someone who is in the Backup
Operators group.

Additionally, on my systems I found that some files were not readable by
the Backup Operators group.  That made it impossible for me to backup
those files until I fixed the problem.

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd connection stalled

[Kenneth Porter]

I started a backup from a new workstation and I can see the rsyncd 
connection with lsof -i but tcpdump shows no traffic passing over it. 
What would cause BackupPC_dump to stall? I also have another backup in 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd connection stalled

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I notice on the general status page that both clients have PIDs but that 
the client with network activity has a transfer PID. Does only one client 
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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

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when i use this command
rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::
i got this :
rsync : failed to connect to servername : connection refused(111)
rsync error : error in socket IO (code 10) at
/home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/clientserver.c (104) [receiver=2.6.9]
thanks
2008/7/31 fatima ech-charif [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 hi
 this my file of configuration rsyncd.conf:

 i open directory /etc in linux and i edit this file rsyncd.conf
 #gid =user
 max connections = 0
 # transfer logging = true
 log format = %h %o %f %l %b
 log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log

 [docs]
 path = /home
 read only = no
 uid = root
 gid = nogroup
 list = yes
 auth users = backuppc
 secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

 thanks






 2008/7/29 Jean-Michel Beuken [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Hello,
  If rsyncd is configured properly and running, you should be able to
  issue this command to get a list of modules offered by the rsyncd
 server:
 
  rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::  (yes, 2 colons)
 
 
  This assumes that you have set list = true for each of the modules
  in the rsyncd.conf on the source server.
 
 I think it is the default (see man page) because without the line list
 = true in the rsyncd.conf,  I can list the modules...

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

[Renke Brausse]

Hi

Am Donnerstag, den 31.07.2008, 09:53 + schrieb fatima ech-charif:
 rsync : failed to connect to servername : connection refused(111)

did you configure the rsyncd on the client side? the error looks like
that you have no running server.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

[David Kuntadi]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:53 PM, fatima ech-charif
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 when i use this command
 rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::
 i got this :
 rsync : failed to connect to servername : connection refused(111)
 rsync error : error in socket IO (code 10) at
 /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.9/clientserver.c (104) [receiver=2.6.9]
 thanks

Are you backing up linux client? If yes, please use rsync:

http://taksuyama.com/?page_id=7

If the client is windows xp, please use rsyncd

http://taksuyama.com/?page_id=8

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

[Holger Parplies]

Hi,

fatima ech-charif wrote on 2008-07-29 10:11:34 + [[BackupPC-users] rsyncd 
in linux]:
 hi
 how to configure rsyncd in linux ubuntu

same as always ... read the docs and relevant man pages.

 because i have this problem
 full backup started for directory docs (baseline backup #18)
  Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: Connection refused)
  Backup aborted (inet connect: Connection refused)

That's not a BackupPC issue. Your rsyncd is not running or there's a firewall
in between or the IP address is wrong or ...

Narrowing down a problem has to be done where the problem is, not where people
have to guess about just about everything.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] rsyncd in linux

[Jon Craig]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Rob Owens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 fatima ech-charif wrote:

 hi
 how to configure rsyncd in linux ubuntu
 because i have this problem
 full backup started for directory docs (baseline backup #18)
  Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: Connection refused)
  Backup aborted (inet connect: Connection refused)
  thanks

 I recommend that you test rsyncd from a terminal on another machine,
 instead of with BackupPC (to minimize the potential spots for error).

 If rsyncd is configured properly and running, you should be able to
 issue this command to get a list of modules offered by the rsyncd server:

 rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::  (yes, 2 colons)

This assumes that you have set list = true for each of the modules
in the rsyncd.conf on the source server.


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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd on Win XP and stalled backups

[Mark Maas]

Dear list,

For a while now I've been testing out backuppc pc, and running it for
real at home with SMB shares.

But now I'm implementing it for work I need to test, test, test, test,
etc.

So I've set it up using the rsyncd package from Backuppc.sourceforge.
And accessing it through a openvpn. Which incidentally does compression
and encryption on it's own, so no need for ssh ;-)

All is working quite wonderfully with 3.1.0. Backups are being made,
full and incremental's.

When a client shutsdown via the Startmenu (windows still), the backup
gets canceled and a partial is saved.

/But/ when the client simply dissapears from radar (cable is janked out,
or laptop is placed in suspend mode) the rsync transfer stalls in lack
of a better word for it.

The backuppc's webpage for the client simply states Backup in progress
forever and never time's out. Even with the --timeout=120 option added
to RsyncArgs.

Plus, when the client reappears, the backup does not continue... :-( It
has to get cancelled by me, before the next backup can be initiated.

Has anyone had the same things happening?

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[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

[Alan Orlič Belšak]

Hello,

is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at 
0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local disk (no 
USB involved), except the include list was involved and there is a lot 
of empty directories.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

[John Pettitt]

Alan Orlic( Belšak wrote:
 Hello,

 is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at 
 0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local disk (no 
 USB involved), except the include list was involved and there is a lot 
 of empty directories.

 Bye, Alan

   

It's almost certainly not rsyncd that is the hold up - next time it runs 
take a look a cpu load, disk activity and network activity - I'd be 
willing to bet that you're disk bound. Do you have rsync checksum 
caching enabled? It normally makes a big difference.


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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd transfer speed

[dan]

iftop, iostat, top.  your best friends :)

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:16 AM, John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Alan Orlic( Belšak wrote:
  Hello,
 
  is there a way to speed up transfer via rsyncd, the last backup was at
  0,9 MB/s. The network is 100Mb, the backup was made on local disk (no
  USB involved), except the include list was involved and there is a lot
  of empty directories.
 
  Bye, Alan
 
 

 It's almost certainly not rsyncd that is the hold up - next time it runs
 take a look a cpu load, disk activity and network activity - I'd be
 willing to bet that you're disk bound. Do you have rsync checksum
 caching enabled? It normally makes a big difference.


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[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd/Samba include/exclude

[Alan Orlič Belšak]

Hello,

probably this has been answered several times, but here I go again - as 
I found out, there is no way to backup Windows machines via Samba for 
some files only (like DOC, XLS, etc), but I was unable to find the 
solution how to do that via rsyncd. I don't like to backup the whole PC, 
only documents.

If somebody has a solution, I'll be more than happy.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsyncd/Samba include/exclude

[Les Mikesell]

Alan Orlic( Belšak wrote:
 Hello,
 
 probably this has been answered several times, but here I go again - as 
 I found out, there is no way to backup Windows machines via Samba for 
 some files only (like DOC, XLS, etc), but I was unable to find the 
 solution how to do that via rsyncd. I don't like to backup the whole PC, 
 only documents.
 
 If somebody has a solution, I'll be more than happy.

I think the only common problem is with files that some other program 
has open and locked.  Is this a character set issue in the filenames?

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[BackupPC-users] rsyncd over ssh

[Joe Krahn]

I decided that the best way to handle rsync security is with rsync in
daemon mode, over ssh, with sudo. The advantages are that rsync daemon
mode allows for chroot and a lot of access controls, but running a
normal rsync daemon could leave some local access security holes, and id
very restricted by many SELinux security configurations.

I now have set up an ssh authorized_key to an unprivileged account,
which runs sudo to start rsync in daemon mode, with a specific
rsyncd.conf. (Earlier, I didn't realize that sudo can limit command
arguments as well as executables.) The rsyncd.conf enforce restrictions
better than my previous attempt at an rsync proxy command.

I have this working for BackupPC. It required a bit of hacking to merge
rsync and rsyncd connections in File::RsyncP.pm, which is implemented
outside of the RsyncP.pm module. I hacked the option to use it into
BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm by using this method when rsyncd is selected with
a port value of zero.

Joe Krahn


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