Jean-Michel Beuken wrote:

> Matthias,
> 
> thanks for the quick answer...
> 
>> I run pre-xfer successfully under Win XP but has no luck with Vista.
>> Did you use XP or Vista?
>>   
> 
> XP SP3
> 
>> Maybee "#! /bin/sh" is necessary in the first line of your
>> "/bin/pre-exec.sh".
> 
> Administrateur@TIKAL2 /etc
> $ cat /bin/pre-exec.sh
> #! /bin/sh
> # Shell script for the pre-exec operaions
> cmd /c "c:\cygwin\bin\pre-exec.cmd"
> exit 0
> 
>> I've read that in one thread somewhere.
>> Did your *-exec.sh have execution rights? Try "ls -alh /bin/*exec.sh"
>>   
> 
> Administrateur@TIKAL2 /bin
> $ ls -alh *exec.sh
> -rwxr-x--- 1 Administrateur None  87 Dec 10 19:17 post-exec.sh
> -rwxr-x--- 1 Administrateur Users 96 Dec 11 19:25 pre-exec.sh
> 
> 
> but it doesn't work !
> 
> Have you remark the error message :
> 
>> Remote[1]: pre-xfer exec returned failure (32256)
>> Remote[1]: rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at
>> /home/lapo/packaging/rsync-3.0.4-1/src/rsync-3.0.4/clientserver.c(840)
>> [receiver=3.0.4]
>> Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
>> Tried again: got 0 bytes
>> Done: 1 files, 197 bytes
>> restore failed: Unable to read 4 bytes
> 
> I use the 3.0.4 version of rsync in cygwin...
> 
> a problem of protocol version between BackupPC and rsyncd/cygwin ?
> 
> the return code ?
> 
> regards,
> jmb
> 
No, no problem with the protocol version. BackupPC use rsync::Perl which
supports protocoll version 28. rsync 3.0.4 supports protocol version 30 in
a maximum. I use the same configuration as you but in german.

Yes, I remark the error message. Unfortunately I do not know what the
meaning of the error code 32256.
requested action not supported simply means that pre-xfer didn't run
successfully. Under this circumstances rsync do not start the backup
process.

The rights of my *exec-scripts:
$ ls -alh *exec.sh
-rwx------ 1 Matthias None  .........
Slight different but probably not the problem.

Sorry if I ask stupid questions but there is no problem obviously. It seems
all alright :-(

Did you have /bin/sh.exe
You have installed rsyncd by cygrunsrv? So it runs as user SYSTEM? See the
owner of the logfile.
Backup work and only restore failed or both?

I have a similiar problem in Vista with failure code (65280). I asked today
for both failure codes in the rsync.general mailing list.

br
Matthias
-- 
Don't panic


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