I followed this KBA for ubuntu/backuppc installation and configuration:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupPC

The default config.pl tar command does not include the network computer
either. The KBA suggested change takes care of the sudo mode of Ubuntu root
required commands, does not change much.

So should I conclude that I must use rsync mode instead of tar mode to do
network backups?


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Shaw [mailto:hobbes1069 AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 12:53 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems to backup linux network computer

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jose Torres <jetorres AT conecodepr DOT com>
wrote:
> Contents of file /data/BackupPC/pc/conecosrv2v2/XferLOG.2.z, modified
> 2009-12-03 09:57:32 (Extracting only Errors)
>
> Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals --exclude=./proc
> --exclude=./backup --exclude=./media --exclude=./mnt --exclude=./tmp
> --exclude=./sys --exclude=./lost+found --exclude=./usr/src
> --exclude=./var/lib --exclude=./var/tmp --exclude=./var/cache
> --exclude=./var/spool --exclude=./var/run --exclude=./var/lock
> --exclude=./var/games --exclude=./home/\*/.Trash
> --exclude=./home/\*/.mozilla/\*/\*/Cache
> --exclude=./home/\*/.mozilla/\*/\*/Cache.Trash --exclude=./home/\*/.gvfs .
> full backup started for directory /
> Xfer PIDs are now 24483,24482
> [ skipped 170685 lines ]
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 75806 filesExist, 3416093265 sizeExist,
> 2448653555 sizeExistComp, 75843 filesTotal, 3678830152 sizeTotal

That looks like your problem right there. Nowhere in the command is
rsync. There may be some obscure way to pipe tar over your network (or
maybe not so obscure) but nothing in that command points to or creates
any sort of network connection to the remote computer.

Basically the command is just running locally which is why it's
backing up the server instead of the client.

Richard

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