Matt Chandler wrote:
> Matt Chandler wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I've recently begun to BackupPC on my network, but I've run into an 
>> error on one of the machines.  About 5 minutes into the backup process 
>> the box in question errors out with the following according to the 
>> BackupPC error log:
>>
>> full backup started for directory /
>> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l backuppc sinope /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync 
>> --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links 
>> --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --one-file-system 
>> --ignore-times . /
>> Xfer PIDs are now 26423
>> Got remote protocol 30
>> Negotiated protocol version 28
>> Sent exclude: /media
>> Sent exclude: /mnt
>> Sent exclude: /proc
>> Sent exclude: /sys
>> Read EOF: 
>> Tried again: got 0 bytes
>> fileListReceive() failed
>> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
>> Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
>> Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
>> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior 
>> one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
>>
>> Here is the config for that machine:
>>
>> $Conf{XferMethod}="rsync";
>> $Conf{RsyncClientPath}="/usr/bin/rsync";
>> $Conf{RsyncClientCmd}='$sshPath -q -x -l backuppc $host /usr/bin/sudo 
>> $rsyncPath $argList+';
>> $Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host $rsyncPath 
>> $argList+';
>> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/', '/u01';
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/media', '/mnt', '/proc', '/sys'];
>>
>>
>> Both machines have the same version of rsync(rsync-3.0.3-1.el4.rf) and 
>> it's only about 100GB of data.  There are machines with more that backup 
>> without an issue.  I can ssh to the client machine as the backup user 
>> from the server side without any problems.  I've seen some posts that 
>> indicate this is a result of not enough ram on the box for rsync to make 
>> a list of every file however the machine has almost 1GB of RAM cached so 
>> I don't think that would be the problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>   
> I should mention that I've gone through the mailing list archives and it 
> doesn't appear that any previous threads apply.  I'm using the correct 
> option for devices(-D) in both backup and restore options and the logs 
> don't appear to indicate any errors other than "it's broke."  At this 
> point, I'm not sure what direction to go.

One thing that is always possible is filesystem corruption on the 
target.  Have you tried doing approximately the same rsync command on 
the command line to see if it starts (you can interrupt it once files 
start copying)?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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