BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Server Backs Itself Up Instead Of The Client

2014-04-10 21:32:22
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Server Backs Itself Up Instead Of The Client
From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:30:47 +1000
On 11/04/14 11:25, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:22 PM, inodeman
> <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
>> This question was asked on this forum in 2012. The answer was to switch from 
>> sudo to ssh. I have already tried that. No help. This problem only appears 
>> when using rsync. Windows machines over samba do get backed up.  This is a 
>> new Debian Testing PC running AMD64. The client pc can be turned off, but 
>> the server ignores that fact, and begins reading the client config file for 
>> directories to back up. As long as there is a match with a server directory, 
>>  the server backs itself up into the client's repository. The back up aborts 
>> when there is a client directory that doesn't exist on the server. I call 
>> this Cowbird behavior. To save you a Google, a Cowbird is a bird that lays 
>> its eggs in somebody else's nest. Have already posted to Debian forum with 
>> no success.
>>
> I can't follow any of that.  What does the log show as the command the
> server ran when it backs itself up instead of the intended target?
> And do you have a ClientAliasName set for this host?
>

Also, please send the content of your client.pl config file....

Regards,
Adam

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