Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thursday 16 February 2012 02:01:53 Zach Lanich wrote: This is all the Log has in it when I try rsync: 2012-02-15 21:59:02 full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites 2012-02-15 21:59:35 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) Oh! A premature exitulation! You did

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-02-16 10:21, Arnold Krille wrote: You did become the backuppc-user on the backupserver and then did one first ssh root@target to accept the host-fingerprint and make sure the passwordless login works? You can avoid the prompt in future with this: # cat /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Zachary Lanich
Yessir. Ssh auth seems to work fine. Using tar it gets half way through before erroring On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Arnold Krille arn...@arnoldarts.de wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2012 02:01:53 Zach Lanich wrote: This is all the Log has in it when I try rsync: 2012-02-15 21:59:02 full

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Zachary Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: Yessir. Ssh auth seems to work fine. Using tar it gets half way through before erroring There should be more detailed information in the Xferlog or Errors link for the backup on the host page. If you are getting some

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Zach Lanich
This is the Host Pages Log. There's nothing in the Xfer LOG. 2012-02-15 22:09:56 full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites 2012-02-15 22:10:14 Got fatal error during xfer (a ./mvc/public/js/ckeditor/_source/skins/office2003/dialog.cssTar exited with error 65280 () status) 2012-02-15

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Zach Lanich
After using the # cat /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/Config StrictHostKeyChecking on, im now getting: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root zachs-macbook-pro env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /Users/zlanich/Sites --totals . full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites Xfer PIDs are now

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Estanislao López Morgan
Have you tried to do ssh -l root host_ip whoami and see what you get? If your root permitions are ok, you should a root as response. Regards On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: This is the Host Pages Log. There's nothing in the Xfer LOG. 2012-02-15

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: This is the Host Pages Log. There's nothing in the Xfer LOG. 2012-02-15 22:09:56 full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites 2012-02-15 22:10:14 Got fatal error during xfer (a

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Zach Lanich
Yep, that's exactly what I did to test the ssh. I have no issues with my network or ssh locally or remotely outside of backuppc. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Estanislao López Morgan esta...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried to do ssh -l root host_ip whoami and see what you get? If your

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:49:53 Zach Lanich wrote: Yep, that's exactly what I did to test the ssh. I have no issues with my network or ssh locally or remotely outside of backuppc. But you did that as root or as your user. backuppc normally runs as user backuppc and there it has its own

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
PLEASE DON'T TOP-POST - it makes it nearly impossible to follow the thread, especially with multiple people chiming in Zach Lanich wrote at about 02:01:53 -0500 on Thursday, February 16, 2012: This is all the Log has in it when I try rsync: 2012-02-15 21:59:02 full backup started for

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 09:59 -0500, Zach Lanich wrote: After using the # cat /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/Config StrictHostKeyChecking on, im now getting: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root zachs-macbook-pro env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /Users/zlanich/Sites --totals . full backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Robert E. Wooden
Every time I have created a new client I have to run: /sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f [insert_your_backupclient_name_here]/ This is the first suggestion at; http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Troubleshooting I am suggesting this

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Zach Lanich
the command you gave me outputs: Bad owner or permissions on /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config I have set up root user on the mac and am able to see it authenticates automatically when sshing into it and using ssh -l root host_ip whoami i get root as the output On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Tim

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Tim Fletcher
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:22 -0500, Zach Lanich wrote: also, because of small dns issues, i just added 192.168.1.2 zachs-macbook-pro to the etc/hosts file and that seems to work fine for resolving my reserved ip So now that you have sorted out this problem what happens if you try the backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: the command you gave me outputs: Bad owner or permissions on /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config I don't think I've ever seen a config file there, but that sounds bad. Did you change it to be owned by the backuppc user and not

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Zach Lanich
Not sure. Could you explain how to to do so properly? On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: the command you gave me outputs: Bad owner or permissions on /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure. Could you explain how to to do so properly? Unless there is some reason to override the defaults in /etc/ssh/ssh__config for the backuppc user only, I would simply remove the /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/config file. If

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thursday 16 February 2012 13:07:01 you wrote: backuppc runs as user backuppc on the Server, but logs into the client/host as root. so there shouldnt be any permissions issues. and ssh works fine and authenticates automtically using ssh keys. I am not giving up that fast (because I know its

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Zach Lanich
I deleted the config file. i prolly dont need it. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure. Could you explain how to to do so properly? Unless there is some reason to override

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Zach Lanich
everyone thats been helping me: i ran this: sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f backupclient from the terminal and heres the result: http://www.4shared.com/office/fkw5q5Ed/errlog2.html i had rsync enabled at the time On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Zach Lanich

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: everyone thats been helping me: i ran this: sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f backupclient from the terminal and heres the result: http://www.4shared.com/office/fkw5q5Ed/errlog2.html i had

[BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-15 Thread Zach Lanich
Hey guys i've been trying for like 12 hrs to get BackupPC to work. im not Amazing at linux, but i have tried Tar, Rsync, etc. each thing has a reason it fails. i got ssh set up and tested it and it works fine via ssh keys. using Tar, it errors (no files to dump) if i leave the

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Zach Lanich zlan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys i've been trying for like 12 hrs to get BackupPC to work. im not Amazing at linux, but i have tried Tar, Rsync, etc. each thing has a reason it fails. i got ssh set up and tested it and it works fine via ssh keys.

Re: [BackupPC-users] I've Tried Everything

2012-02-15 Thread Zach Lanich
This is all the Log has in it when I try rsync: 2012-02-15 21:59:02 full backup started for directory /Users/zlanich/Sites 2012-02-15 21:59:35 Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely) On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Feb 15,