Great stuff - glad that the fix was good with your problem. Glad I could help,
---Tim
On 1/25/09, Didier Misson <didier.linux AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Tim Chipman a écrit :
> > check your config file for the specific server in question
> >
> > I found this same behaviour, it is if you have a null path at end of
> > stanza of paths to backup
> >
> > so what it is literally telling you, is that it finished the first
> > (real, desired) work
> > but failed on the (unwanted, null) work
> >
> > hence the confusion
> >
> > In my case, I think the null field was appended via the web interface,
> > by accident, when I was doing initial config / setup of paths to be
> > backed up. At first I thought it was an rsync issue, but I had
> > identical behaviour with "tar" as well. Lots of fun! :-)
> >
> > Took a few weeks before the answer jumped out at me..
> >
> > -Tim
>
> Tim, it's OK now !
>
> You are right ;-)
>
> I had checked and suppress some folders and keep only "/etc" BEFORE
> write on the ML...
>
> but NEVER I think to remove this stupid empty line at the bottom of the
> folders list on the Xfer page ! ...
>
> Now I click on "delete" and suppress the line, and all is normal.
> BackupPC finish correctly. No error message ;-)
>
>
> Thank a lot for your very fast (and intersting) reply ;-)
>
>
> I make a note on my blog (en français) about this problem and the
> solution, because I search a long time and it can be useful for other
>
> ;-)
>
>
> http://didier.misson.net/blog/2009/01/26/backuppc-backup-aborted
>
>
>
>
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Didier Misson <didier.linux AT gmail DOT
> com> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm new on this mailing list.
> >>
> >> I use BackupPc since several months on an Ubuntu 8.04 server.
> >> No problem with it.
> >> I backup 2 Debian Etch servers : fine ;-)
> >>
> >> But these backups are very slow because my backup server is at home on
> >> an ADSL line 6Mbps ...
> >> If a crash occurs (I hope no), I will need to restore at the upload
> >> speed of 640 Kbps... :-( very long !
> >>
> >>
> >> So, we decide to install BackupPc on our secondary server (hosted by OVH).
> >>
> >> ================================================
> >>
> >> I try to backup our main server, on the BackupPc running on the
> >> secondary server.
> >>
> >> Both servers are :
> >>
> >> Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
> >>
> >> Linux ks12345.kimsufi.com 2.6.27.10-grsec-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Due to problem when I try to install BackupPc on the secondary server
> >> (and BackupPC too old in Debian), I add "Backup Port" on the apt source
> >> list on this secondary server.
> >>
> >> Here is the version :
> >>
> >> ~$ aptitude show backuppc
> >> Package: backuppc
> >> State: installed
> >> Automatically installed: no
> >> Version: 3.1.0-4~bpo40+1 <-----
> >> Priority: optional
> >> Section: utils
> >> ..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I ALWAYS have the same problem :
> >>
> >> - backup seem to run correctly : all files are seen in the log and are
> >> backup
> >> - at the end of the backup, a message "Done: 1837 files, 43529611 bytes
> >> Backup aborted ()"
> >>
> >> and... the backup aborted just at the END !
> >>
> >> So :
> >> - it always keep the partial first backup it try to make
> >> - as no successfull backup, each time BackupPc try to make a FULL backup
> >> again... very long !
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Here is the log :
> >>
> >> Contents of file /backup/pc/ks12345.kimsufi.com/XferLOG.bad.z, modified
> >> 2009-01-25 22:44:01
> >>
> >> full backup started for directory /etc
> >> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root ks28853.kimsufi.com /usr/bin/rsync
> >> --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links
> >> --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /etc/
> >> Xfer PIDs are now 15588
> >> Got remote protocol 29
> >> Negotiated protocol version 28
> >> Xfer PIDs are now 15588,15589
> >> create d 755 0/0 4096 .
> >> create 600 0/0 0 .pwd.lock
> >> same 644 0/0 588 GeoIP.conf.default
> >> same 644 0/0 611 Net
> >> create d 755 0/0 4096 X11
> >> create d 755 0/0 4096 X11/Xresources
> >> same 644 0/0 319 X11/Xresources/x11-common
> >> same 755 0/0 3944 X11/Xsession
> >> create d 755 0/0 4096 X11/Xsession.d
> >> same 644 0/0 1869
> >> X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args
> >> ...
> >>
> >> ...
> >> create d 755 0/0 4096 vim
> >> same 644 0/0 2318 vim/vimrc
> >> same 644 0/0 774 vim/vimrc.tiny
> >> create d 755 0/0 4096 w3m
> >> same 644 0/0 1185 w3m/config
> >> same 644 0/0 44 w3m/mailcap
> >> same 644 0/0 4221 wgetrc
> >> create d 755 0/0 4096 xml
> >> same 644 0/0 475 xml/catalog
> >> same 644 0/0 360 xml/catalog.old
> >> same 644 0/0 517 xml/xml-core.xml
> >> same 644 0/0 381 xml/xml-core.xml.old
> >> Done: 1837 files, 43529611 bytes
> >>
> >> Backup aborted () <======= no error code !!!
> >>
> >> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the
> >> prior one (got 1837 and 1837 files versus 140628)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The problem is that this message "Backup aborted" has NO error code !
> >> So how can I search on the net to see what error and what solution ?
>
>
> --
> Didier
>
> http://didier.misson.net/blog
>
>
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