With your help, I was able to get BackupPC working. Next I set up
my permanent storage location on a 500 GB drive mounted at
/var/lib/BackupPC. All seemed to be running well until I shut down my LAN
rearrange furniture in the room. After placing the LAN back in service,
BackupPC no longer worked. To the best of my knowledge, the only changes
to the systems (Archiver and Winserver, both running Fedora 8) were package
downloads and installation of a printer on Archiver.
The only thing that I see in the updates that potentially could affect
BackupPC operation was the new kernel. I booted both machines to the
previous kernel and BackupPC still does not work.
I have gone over all of the setup files that I modified to get it going
the first time and can find no change from what worked initially.
(I submitted this under ‘Almost Working – Working –
Stopped Working’ earlier but have gotten no replies.)
>>>>>> Latest data in yum.log on Achiver:
Oct 24 10:58:03 Installed: kernel-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i686
Oct 24 10:58:22 Installed: kernel-devel-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i686
Oct 24 10:58:24 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i386
Oct 24 10:58:25 Updated: kde-filesystem-4-19.fc8.noarch
>>>>>> Last good incr backup at 10/25/2008 03:00
Oct 25 11:49:58 Updated: file-libs-4.21-6.fc8.i386
Oct 25 11:49:59 Updated: Xaw3d-1.5E-12.fc8.i386
Oct 25 11:50:00 Updated: Xaw3d-devel-1.5E-12.fc8.i386
Oct 25 11:50:00 Updated: file-4.21-6.fc8.i386
Oct 27 18:11:15 Installed: 1:pnm2ppa-1.04-14.fc8.i386 (>>
HP printer installed)
[root@Archiver log]#
>>>>>>Latest data in yum.log on Winserver:
Oct 21 21:43:34 Updated: libpurple-2.5.1-3.fc8.i386
Oct 21 21:43:37 Updated: systemtap-runtime-0.7-1.fc8.i386
Oct 24 11:17:48 Installed: kernel-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i686
Oct 24 11:20:20 Installed: kernel-devel-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i686
Oct 24 11:20:39 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.26.6-49.fc8.i386
Oct 24 11:20:43 Updated: kde-filesystem-4-19.fc8.noarch
>>>>>> Last good incr backup at 10/25/2008 03:00
Oct 26 15:40:54 Updated: file-libs-4.21-6.fc8.i386
Oct 26 15:40:56 Updated: Xaw3d-1.5E-12.fc8.i386
Oct 26 15:41:00 Updated: Xaw3d-devel-1.5E-12.fc8.i386
Oct 26 15:41:02 Updated: file-4.21-6.fc8.i386
[root@Winserver log]#
>>>>>> BackupPC Log for Winserver:
Contents of file /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/winserver/LOG.102008, modified
2008-10-28 12:41:48
>>>>>> After creating LVM for 500 GB drive and
mounting at /var/lib/BackupPC,
>>>>>> I ran a full backup?
2008-10-15 22:31:11 full backup started for directory /media/SHARE2
2008-10-15 23:26:45 full backup started for directory /media/SHARE1
2008-10-15 23:56:12 full backup 0 complete, 16479 files, 34508365250
bytes, 745 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 745 other)
2008-10-17 03:00:00 incr backup started back to 2008-10-15 22:31:11
(backup #0) for directory /media/SHARE2
2008-10-17 03:00:22 incr backup started back to 2008-10-15 22:31:11
(backup #0) for directory /media/SHARE1
2008-10-17 03:00:39 incr backup 1 complete, 6 files, 23239994 bytes, 0
xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other)
2008-10-18 03:00:00 incr backup started back to 2008-10-17 03:00:00
(backup #1) for directory /media/SHARE2
2008-10-18 03:00:21 incr backup started back to 2008-10-17 03:00:00
(backup #1) for directory /media/SHARE1
>>>>>>
Lines deleted to save space. <<<<<<
2008-10-25 03:00:00 incr backup started back to 2008-10-24 03:00:00
(backup #8) for directory /media/SHARE2
2008-10-25 03:00:21 incr backup started back to 2008-10-24 03:00:00
(backup #8) for directory /media/SHARE1
2008-10-25 03:00:40 incr backup 9 complete, 32 files, 44569138 bytes, 0
xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other)
>>>>>> The LAN was down while doing some major
rearrangements to the room.
2008-10-26 03:00:04 no ping response
until
2008-10-27 06:00:24 no ping response
>>>>>> LAN restored when work was completed afternoon
of 10/27/2008.
>>>>>> New packages for Fedora 8 were downloaded on
reconnect.
2008-10-28 01:00:06 incr backup started back to 2008-10-25 03:00:00
(backup #9) for directory /media/SHARE2
2008-10-28 01:00:07 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4
bytes)
2008-10-28 01:00:12 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
until
2008-10-28 06:00:06 incr backup started back to 2008-10-25 03:00:00
(backup #9) for directory /media/SHARE2
2008-10-28 06:00:07 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4
bytes)
2008-10-28 06:00:12 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>>>>>> Rebooted system and tried to perform a full
backup.
2008-10-28 12:41:42 full backup started for directory /media/SHARE2
(baseline backup #9)
2008-10-28 12:41:43 Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4
bytes)
2008-10-28 12:41:48 Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>>>>>> Performed a manual dump test? I hope
someone can see something that will help! <<<<<<
[ken@WinServer ~]$ ssh archiver
ken@archiver's password:
Last login: Mon Oct 27 13:36:41 2008 from WinServer
[ken@Archiver ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@Archiver ~]# su -s /bin/bash - backuppc
-bash-3.2$ /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f WinServer
Name server doesn't know about WinServer; trying NetBios
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup WinServer
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output querying WinServer on
192.168.1.255
192.168.1.101 WinServer<00>
NetBiosHostIPFind: found IP address 192.168.1.101 for host WinServer
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 192.168.1.101
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING
192.168.1.101 (192.168.1.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.466 ms
--- 192.168.1.101 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.466/0.466/0.466/0.000 ms
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 192.168.1.101
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING
192.168.1.101 (192.168.1.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.228 ms
--- 192.168.1.101 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.228/0.228/0.228/0.000 ms
CheckHostAlive: returning 0.228
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup -A 192.168.1.101
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output Looking up status of
192.168.1.101
WINSERVER <00>
- H <ACTIVE>
WINSERVER
<03> - H <ACTIVE>
WINSERVER <20>
- H <ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <1e> - <GROUP> H
<ACTIVE>
MYDOMAIN <00> - <GROUP> H
<ACTIVE>
MAC Address =
00-00-00-00-00-00
NetBiosInfoGet: success, returning host WinServer, user WinServer
full backup started for directory /media/SHARE2 (baseline backup #9)
started full dump, share=/media/SHARE2
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root WinServer /usr/bin/rsync --server
--sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times
--block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /media/SHARE2/
Xfer PIDs are now 6163
xferPids 6163
Rsync command pid is 6163
Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
Tried again: got 0 bytes
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 192.168.1.101
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING
192.168.1.101 (192.168.1.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.257 ms
--- 192.168.1.101 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.257/0.257/0.257/0.000 ms
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 192.168.1.101
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING
192.168.1.101 (192.168.1.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.221 ms
--- 192.168.1.101 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.221/0.221/0.221/0.000 ms
CheckHostAlive: returning 0.221
Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the
prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
dump failed: Unable to read 4 bytes
-bash-3.2$
