Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-25 Thread Paul Littlefield
On 19/10/2018 18:53, Craig Barratt wrote: I'd recommend temporarily removing $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd}, and also reducing the smbclient debug level ("-d 5") to 1 ("-d 1") in $Conf{SmbClientFullCmd} and  $Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd}. Hello Craig, Alas, it's getting worse... The following hosts had

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-19 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
> > Here you go... it could be the net shutdown command failing perhaps? My initial reaction was yes, but a bad exit status from DumpPostUserCmd will only cause the backup to be considered bad if $Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus} is non-zero. If it were, there should be an error message saying so. Can

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-19 Thread Paul Littlefield
On 18/10/2018 16:56, Craig Barratt wrote: It seems the XferLOG file is very short.  Can you just send the whole thing please? Here you go... it could be the net shutdown command failing perhaps? Running: /usr/bin/smbclient 192.168.0.101\\BackupPC-Test -U XX -E -d 5 -c tarmode\ full

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-18 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
It seems the XferLOG file is very short. Can you just send the whole thing please? It appears just one 63 byte file gets transferred. Is Test.txt the only file in the BackupPC-Test share? BackupPC 3.3.1 with smb transfers checks for either of these two strings: "tar_process done, err = 0" and

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-18 Thread Paul Littlefield
On 18/10/2018 14:13, Paul Littlefield wrote: Ah, logged in and this is the samba smbclient command line... and this is the end of the XferLOG file... Domain=[PC] OS=[Windows 7 Home Premium 7601 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1] session setup ok tconx ok tar:316 tarmode

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-18 Thread Paul Littlefield
On 18/10/2018 13:50, Paul Littlefield wrote: I cannot read any of the XferLOG files, there are in .z format Ah, logged in and this is the samba smbclient command line... Running: /usr/bin/smbclient 192.168.0.101\\BackupPC-Test -U User -E -d 5 -c tarmode\ full -Tc - full backup started

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-18 Thread Paul Littlefield
On 13/10/2018 18:20, Craig Barratt wrote: Paul, Sorry, I really misinterpreted the error message ("tar_process done, err = 0")  you sent.  It's from smbclient, not tar. What version of smbclient are you running?  What is the smbclient command line (near the top of the XferLOG file)?  What are

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-17 Thread Paul Littlefield
On 13/10/2018 18:20, Craig Barratt wrote: Paul, Sorry, I really misinterpreted the error message ("tar_process done, err = 0")  you sent.  It's from smbclient, not tar. What version of smbclient are you running?  What is the smbclient command line (near the top of the XferLOG file)?  What are

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-13 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
entFullCmd} and $Conf{SmbClientIncrCmd}? Do both incremental and full backups fail with the same error? Craig On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 5:46 AM Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Paul Littlefield wrote on 2018-10-12 12:22:48 +0000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > fatal error during xfer (tar:632)]: &

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-12 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Paul Littlefield wrote on 2018-10-12 12:22:48 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)]: > On 11/10/2018 23:44, Craig Barratt wrote: > >[...] > >What version of tar are you using?  Can you run gnu tar instead (that's the > >default under cygwin)

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-12 Thread Paul Littlefield
On 11/10/2018 23:44, Craig Barratt wrote: Paul, BackupPC looks at the status / summary messages from tar to determine if the transfer completed successfully.  That means it depends on the type and version of tar you are using. It's reporting that the last output line from tar was "632 

Re: [BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-11 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
Paul, BackupPC looks at the status / summary messages from tar to determine if the transfer completed successfully. That means it depends on the type and version of tar you are using. It's reporting that the last output line from tar was "632 tar_process done, err = 0". I don't think that's a

[BackupPC-users] fatal error during xfer (tar:632)

2018-10-11 Thread Paul Littlefield
Hello List, I am getting this error during backup from a Windows 7 Professional PC... 2018-10-08 20:31:03 Got fatal error during xfer (tar:632 tar_process done, err = 0) 2018-10-08 20:31:08 Backup aborted (tar:632 tar_process done, err = 0) ...is anything wrong? Thanks, Paul Ubuntu Linux

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer / protocol incompatibility (code 2)

2013-12-11 Thread Andrzej
so I'll answer my own question: the problem was the option --dry-run. When the files are actually being copied, no such error occurs. A. On 04.12.2013 22:29, Andrzej wrote: Hello, I have a BackupPC installation (v.3.2.1) on a Debian Wheezy and I'm trying to backup a bunch of files from

[BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer / protocol incompatibility (code 2)

2013-12-04 Thread Andrzej
Hello, I have a BackupPC installation (v.3.2.1) on a Debian Wheezy and I'm trying to backup a bunch of files from Windows 2008 server. There is a 64bit cwRsync installed on the Windows side, running as a service. When I start the test run of the full backup, it breaks after a while, showing an

[BackupPC-users] Fatal Error During Xfer. Tar shows 0 errors

2009-11-30 Thread newsboy
I had been using backuppc for about a year without any problems. I upgraded to karmic from jaunty and I started having problems. I have been fighting with this for weeks and today I completely removed backuppc along with the config files and reinstalled. I am still running into the same

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal Error During Xfer. Tar shows 0 errors

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Bennett
Hi there, I had been using backuppc for about a year without any problems. I upgraded to karmic from jaunty and I started having problems. I have been fighting with this for weeks and today I completely removed backuppc along with the config files and reinstalled. I am still running into the

[BackupPC-users] Fatal Error During Xfer. Tar shows 0 errors

2009-11-30 Thread newsboy
I was able to get backuppc to work. I had forgotten to add /var/lib/backuppc to my excluded files. newsboy wrote: I had been using backuppc for about a year without any problems. I upgraded to karmic from jaunty and I started having problems. I have been fighting with this for weeks and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-29 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Steve Blackwell wrote: Adam Goryachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set the full path to sudo eg /bin/sudo Maybe that will help. Regards, Adam Thanls for the suggestion but I still get the same error. Is your sudo binary really /bin/sudo? On our CentOS machines 'which sudo' returns

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-29 Thread Steve
Well, I changed to use the correct full path for sudo and now I get this error: Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2008-07-29 12:25:04 Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals --newer=2008-07-27\ 17:56:09 . incr backup started back to 2008-07-27

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-29 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Steve wrote: Well, I changed to use the correct full path for sudo and now I get this error: Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2008-07-29 12:25:04 Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals -- newer=2008-07-27\ 17:56:09 . incr backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Blackwell
Steve wrote: Well, I changed to use the correct full path for sudo and now I get this error: Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2008-07-29 12:25:04 Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals -- newer=2008-07-27\ 17:56:09 . incr backup

[BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Blackwell
I just installed BackupPC and I started by attempting to backup just my local machine which is also the BackupPC server. Since this is a local machine I don't need ssh so I set my TarClientCmd to $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName+ --totals. This worked OK but some directories were not backed up

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Blackwell
Adam Goryachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set the full path to sudo eg /bin/sudo Maybe that will help. Regards, Adam Thanls for the suggestion but I still get the same error. Stev e. Steve Blackwell wrote: I just installed BackupPC and I started by attempting to backup just

Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error during xfer

2008-07-28 Thread Craig Barratt
Steve writes: Since this is a local machine I don't need ssh so I set my TarClientCmd to $tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName+ --totals. This worked OK but some directories were not backed up because the user, backuppc, doesn't have root privileges. Next I set up sudo to allow backuppc to run