Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine
-Original Message- From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:10 PM To: 'backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: FileListReceive failed on Irix machine Hi all, Of course after having mailed to this list about how good BackupPC is and how it worked flawlessly, I ran into a problem with one of our ancient SGI-machines. The error I get is seen below. full backup started for directory /etc Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn /usr/sbin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /etc/ Xfer PIDs are now 16088 Got remote protocol 1920169263 Fatal error (bad version): /usr/sbin/rsync Read EOF: Tried again: got 0 bytes fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) First problem was that it couldn't find the rsync executable, but I managed to track it down and change the path in this particular machine's setup page in BackupPC. After that, I got the above error message. Here however, I'm not entirely sure what's causing the failed fileListReceive command. I have a hunch it might be a case of BackupPC looking in the wrong place for something, just as with the former rsync executabel, but what? Unfortunately I'm not that into Irix at all, but know enough to know that it isn't quite like normal linux. Would anybody who has any insights in Irix please give me a hint or two as how to fix this? What's worse, there is no dmesg, as I know of in Irix, as suggested on http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#fileListReceive_failed... -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine
hi, I could never get rsync to work with our last SGI system and I switched it to use gnu tar instead. I got it gnu tar from http://freeware.sgi.com/ Mark On 1/21/2010 7:09 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: it worked flawlessly, I ran into a problem with one of our ancient -- Mark Maciolek Network Administrator Morse Hall 339 862-3050 m...@sr.unh.edu https://www.sr.unh.edu -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine
Sorin Srbu wrote: Of course after having mailed to this list about how good BackupPC is and how it worked flawlessly, I ran into a problem with one of our ancient SGI-machines. The error I get is seen below. full backup started for directory /etc Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn /usr/sbin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /etc/ Xfer PIDs are now 16088 Got remote protocol 1920169263 Fatal error (bad version): /usr/sbin/rsync Valid protocol numbers should be 30 or lower; backuppc must negotiate 28 or lower. Something is very wrong here. Read EOF: Tried again: got 0 bytes fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) First problem was that it couldn't find the rsync executable, but I managed to track it down and change the path in this particular machine's setup page in BackupPC. After that, I got the above error message. Here however, I'm not entirely sure what's causing the failed fileListReceive command. I have a hunch it might be a case of BackupPC looking in the wrong place for something, just as with the former rsync executabel, but what? Unfortunately I'm not that into Irix at all, but know enough to know that it isn't quite like normal linux. Would anybody who has any insights in Irix please give me a hint or two as how to fix this? What's worse, there is no dmesg, as I know of in Irix, as suggested on http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#fileListReceive_failed... First, make sure that there is nothing like a message-of-the-day generating output from the shell before rsync starts. That's a common problem but I'm not sure if it causes this issue. You should be able to test with some rsync commands from the backuppc server command line to see if it works at all. If not and you have a compiler, I'd try to build a newer version from source. Or switch to tar as the xfer method. For that you need the gnu version of tar which may be named gtar if you have it at all. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine
-Original Message- From: Mark Maciolek [mailto:m...@sr.unh.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:40 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine I could never get rsync to work with our last SGI system and I switched it to use gnu tar instead. I got it gnu tar from http://freeware.sgi.com/ @Les Mikesell and Mark Maciolek: I'll look into gtar instead then. Thanks! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine
-Original Message- From: Adam Goryachev [mailto:mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:47 PM To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/21/2010 7:09 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: it worked flawlessly, I ran into a problem with one of our ancient Sorry, missed replying to your original message, but from memory (on linux systems) it seems to suggest that when backuppc logs into your irix machine and attempts to run rsync, it is getting some input from a shell or other login script instead of input from rsync binary. You might try to login to the backuppc machine as the backuppc user, and run the command ssh r...@irix id and make sure you do not get *ANY* output other than root. If you get any other output track down what is causing it, and remove it. Thanks. It would seem that using tar instead with this machine might be easier. I'll try it out and see what I get, and then post back when and if. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine
-Original Message- From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:37 PM To: 'General list for user discussion, questions and support' Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine I could never get rsync to work with our last SGI system and I switched it to use gnu tar instead. I got it gnu tar from http://freeware.sgi.com/ @Les Mikesell and Mark Maciolek: I'll look into gtar instead then. Thanks! This support-list appears to be as good as the software. ;-) Seems to be working with gtar. Thanks guys! -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] FileListReceive failed on Irix machine
Sorin writes: full backup started for directory /etc Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn /usr/sbin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /etc/ Xfer PIDs are now 16088 Got remote protocol 1920169263 Fatal error (bad version): /usr/sbin/rsync I realize you have switched to gtar, but just for the record, the reason it is failing is that the ssh command generates this output /usr/sbin/rsync instead of quietly running rsync. So something on that machine (.bashrc, ssh debug etc?) is printing the command before it executes it. Craig -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
