Re: [BackupPC-users] It's not working here

On 6/28/2010 1:30 PM, Jim Kyle wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a backup system for my home-office LAN which consists
> of three Xubuntu Hardy 8.04.4 boxes and one that runs Win98SE. Initially
> I've left the Windows box out of the mix; the three Xubuntu boxes are
> configured to use tar rather than rsync, and while I'm getting it to work
> I'm only backing up /etc on each box. I've got ssh working and the BackupPC
> server is accessible from all three, but attempts to do either full or
> incremental backups fail. Here's a typical Xfer.LOG report, from localhost:
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l backuppc localhost sudo env LC_ALL=C 
> /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /etc --totals --newer=2010-06-27 08:56:28 .
> incr backup started back to 2010-06-27 08:56:28 (backup #0) for directory /etc
> Xfer PIDs are now 26333,26332
> Tar exited with error 65280 () status
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 
> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
> Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 65280 () status)
> Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 65280 () status)
>
> (I've inserted extra line spaces to keep the report from running together.)
> I haven't found any documentation to tell me what the "65280" tar error
> means; localhost did run one full backup when I was getting things set up
> so I would expect incrementals to work. Any ideas?

It sounds like you are not matching your sudo rules to permit execution. 
  I don't use sudo that way - is there a log for what executed or was 
denied?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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