On 07/04/14 23:56, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> What does backuppc record in the logs?
> What happens if you login as the backuppc user, and run the exact same
> command as seen in the logs?
>
> There is some difference between what you are doing to test what
> backuppc does, or else you are accidentally covering up the difference.
> You will need to find the difference, and fix it. We can't do that
> without the complete information, only guess at what you might have done
> differently.
>
> PS, you can also try running the ssh command like this:
> ssh hostname id | od -xa
>
> This will help verify you are not getting any extra characters. In your
> case, that would be:
> ssh hostname sudo id | od -xa
>
> PS, my guess is it is either a problem with the keys, hostname, etc, or
> else a problem with sudo. Try to configure backuppc to backup /bin or
> something as the unprivileged user (without sudo). Once that works, then
> complicate things with sudo. Divide (the potential problems) and conquer
> (the now smaller problems).
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
> On 08/04/14 01:33, westoztux wrote:
>> 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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Thanks Les and Adam for your help i will continue to look myself to
find out the difference between my other servers and this server and
what is causing the problem.
Regards
Darren
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