Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hi Falko, >> Apparently a shell is required to use a jump host from the ssh command in >> this situation? > > There's an analysis about apparently same problem: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/457692/does-ssh-proxyjump-require-local-shell-access > > They mention, that setting the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hi Pim, The reason for this had nothing to do with any "remote host", it was that the "backuppc" user had no shell configured! # grep backuppc /etc/passwd backuppc:x:994:990::/var/lib/BackupPC:/sbin/nologin After changing the shell to /bin/bash for backuppc, all errors

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hello Falko, > On 22 Apr 2020, at 09:59, Falko Trojahn via BackupPC-users > wrote: > > Usually, there are some more informations in the Xferlog. What shows the > Xferlog of a failed attempt? The XferLog and verbose output for three attempts are attached below. The same user is used for all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hi Pim, Without DumpPreUserCmd I get the following error when initiating an incremental backup through the web interface: Got fatal error during xfer (rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2.0]) that reminds me, that I'm using rsync-bpc version

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hi Greg and Falko > On 21 Apr 2020, at 20:09, Greg Harris wrote: > > You seem to have a pretty good handle on stuff, but you aren’t suffering from > CentOS’ silent killer are you? SELinux? Thank for the suggestion. Unfortunately it's not SELinux, I have it fully disabled to be certain. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

You seem to have a pretty good handle on stuff, but you aren’t suffering from CentOS’ silent killer are you? SELinux? Thanks, Greg Harris On Apr 21, 2020, at 8:10 AM, Falko Trojahn via BackupPC-users mailto:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: Hi Pim, using jumphost here for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hello Pim, using jumphost here for backing up a remote host and it's VMs without any problems. What BackupPC version do you use? I am using BackupPC 4.3.1-3 from the yum repository for CentOS 7. Very good to hear that you got it working on your installation. ok, so I'll try it on an 4.3.2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hi Pim, using jumphost here for backing up a remote host and it's VMs without any problems. What BackupPC version do you use? I am using BackupPC 4.3.1-3 from the yum repository for CentOS 7. Very good to hear that you got it working on your installation. ok, so I'll try it on an 4.3.2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

On 21 Apr 2020, at 12:09, Pim Rupert wrote: > > I am just speculating here, but could it be that when the BackupPC software > is handling the SSH process, it is somehow unable to deal with the implictly > added ProxyCommand arguments? Following this hunch I tried starting the BackupPC_dump

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hi Falko, > On 21 Apr 2020, at 00:03, Falko Trojahn via BackupPC-users > wrote: > > using jumphost here for backing up a remote host and it's VMs without any > problems. What BackupPC version do you use? I am using BackupPC 4.3.1-3 from the yum repository for CentOS 7. Very good to hear

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

Hi, Option B: using an SSH client config file Alternatively I have tried using an implicit jump host through SSH client config with a slightly different way of setting up the jump host (through netcat). This results in exactly the same errors. Host client-machine ProxyCommand ssh