Matt Chandler wrote:
> All,
>
> I've recently begun to BackupPC on my network, but I've run into an 
> error on one of the machines.  About 5 minutes into the backup process 
> the box in question errors out with the following according to the 
> BackupPC error log:
>
> full backup started for directory /
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l backuppc sinope /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync 
> --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links 
> --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --one-file-system 
> --ignore-times . /
> Xfer PIDs are now 26423
> Got remote protocol 30
> Negotiated protocol version 28
> Sent exclude: /media
> Sent exclude: /mnt
> Sent exclude: /proc
> Sent exclude: /sys
> 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)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior 
> one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
>
> Here is the config for that machine:
>
> $Conf{XferMethod}="rsync";
> $Conf{RsyncClientPath}="/usr/bin/rsync";
> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd}='$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc $host /usr/bin/sudo 
> $rsyncPath $argList+';
> $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath 
> $argList+';
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/', '/u01';
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/media', '/mnt', '/proc', '/sys'];
>
>
> Both machines have the same version of rsync(rsync-3.0.3-1.el4.rf) and 
> it's only about 100GB of data.  There are machines with more that backup 
> without an issue.  I can ssh to the client machine as the backup user 
> from the server side without any problems.  I've seen some posts that 
> indicate this is a result of not enough ram on the box for rsync to make 
> a list of every file however the machine has almost 1GB of RAM cached so 
> I don't think that would be the problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>   
I should mention that I've gone through the mailing list archives and it 
doesn't appear that any previous threads apply.  I'm using the correct 
option for devices(-D) in both backup and restore options and the logs 
don't appear to indicate any errors other than "it's broke."  At this 
point, I'm not sure what direction to go.

-- 
Matt Chandler
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