BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc failing on backup "Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)"

2014-04-07 11:34:53
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc failing on backup "Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)"
From: westoztux <westoztux AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:33:21 +0800
On 07/04/14 22:39, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:50 AM, westoztux <westoztux AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>> Does the target host output anything (like a message of the day
>>> greeting) before running the command you sent?  The rsync
>>> implementation in backuppc can't handle extraneous data, although
>>> stock rsync can ignore it.
>>>
>> Thanks Les
>> When i log in via ssh directly to the client machine i see no motd. Do i
>> need to check this another way ?  If i run the backup command that
>> backuppc uses from the server I get a strange character appear on the
>> ssh terminal of the backuppc server , on the client in auth.log i see
>> the server connect successfully   and then  run the command sudo:
>> backuppc : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/backuppc ; USER=root ;
>> COMMAND=/usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner
>> --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive
>> -vv --ignore-times . /home/  . I have checked my other servers that are
>> working and they return this same character if i run the command
>> manually.  Thanks
> If you don't see any output, then it sounds more like a problem with
> sudo starting rsync. Can you tell from the logs if the execution is
> sucessful?
>
I dont think the process gets that far  , when I start the backup from 
the backuppc gui i dont see a successful login in the auth.log I only 
see this sshd[30557]: Connection closed by xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [preauth]



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