Robert Steinmetz AIA wrote:
> I have just installed backuppc on a  Ubuntu 8.04 system. I am attempting 
> to back it up to a 500GB external USB drive. I intend to run daily 
> incremental backups after that.
> 
> It almost seems to be working now except when I run a full back up the 
> backup fails after creating only a 230MB archive.
>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 231406815 2009-03-13 10:45 localhost.4.tar.gz

I think I'm missing something here.  Are you trying to make an archive 
copy of backuppc's backup of the local host where the USB drive is 
attached?  What's the point, compared to just running the tar directly?

> Here is the last log entry.
> 
>> 2009-03-13 11:06:33 Started full backup on localhost 
>> <http://romulus/backuppc/index.cgi?host=localhost> (pid=7651, share=/)
>> 2009-03-13 11:06:40 Backup failed on localhost 
>> <http://romulus/backuppc/index.cgi?host=localhost> (fileListReceive failed)

This doesn't have anything to do with your localhost.4.tar.gz file. 
Backing up the local host is sort-of a special case if you don't let it 
connect over ssh like everything else.

> Since I'm new to backuppc I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing and I'm 
> not sure what information would be helpful in solving my problem.
> I'm happy to provide any information necessary

I think you need to start from scratch since it isn't obvious what you 
are trying to do or why it is failing.  Are you putting backuppc's 
native storage on the USB drive or just trying to make archive runs to 
it of things backuppc has saved?  And what kind of filesystem is on the 
USB drive?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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