I was able to get backuppc to work. I had forgotten to add /var/lib/backuppc to 
my excluded files.



newsboy wrote:
> I had been using backuppc for about a year without any problems. I upgraded 
> to karmic from jaunty and I started having problems. I have been fighting 
> with this for weeks and today I completely removed backuppc along with the 
> config files and reinstalled. I am still running into the same problems.
> 
> Logs are as follows:
> 
> 2009-11-29 19:03:21 full backup started for directory /
> 2009-11-29 19:51:14 Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with 
> error 512 () status)
> 2009-11-29 19:51:19 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 
> () status)
> 2009-11-29 19:51:19 Saved partial dump 1
> 
> Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/XferLOG.1.z, modified 
> 2009-11-29 19:51:19 (Extracting only Errors)
> 
> Running: sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /home/newsboy --totals 
> --exclude=./proc --exclude=./dev --exclude=./tmp --exclude=./mnt 
> --exclude=./media --exclude=./sys --exclude=./lost+found --exclude=./usr/src 
> --exclude=./var/lib --exclude=./var/tmp --exclude=./var/cache 
> --exclude=./var/spool --exclude=./var/run --exclude=./var/lock 
> --exclude=./var/games --exclude=./home/*/.Trash 
> --exclude=./home/*/.mozilla/*/*/Cache 
> --exclude=./home/*/.mozilla/*/*/Cache.Trash ./
> full backup started for directory /home/newsboy 
> 
> Here is the output of ./BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost
>  tarExtract: Got file './etc/cups/thnuclnt.convs', mode 0644, size 
> 91, type 0
>   create   644       0/0    
>       91 etc/cups/thnuclnt.convs
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/resolvconf
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/avahi-autoipd
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/samba
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/zzz_avahi-autoipd
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/debug
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/rfc3442-classless-routes
> ./etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntpdate
> Total bytes written: 22378383360 (21GiB, 7.5MiB/s)
> /bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> Tar exited with error 512 () status
> 
> 
> A little bit later output from the same command...
> 
> 
> 
> tarExtract: Got file './etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntpdate', mode 
> 0644, size 802, type 0
>   create   644       0/0    
>      802 etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntpdate
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 869 filesExist, 149190240 sizeExist, 
> 128046419 sizeExistComp, 218062 filesTotal, 22169152421 sizeTotal
> Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 () 
> status)
> cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 localhost
> cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING newsboy-desktop 
> (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from newsboy-desktop (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 
> time=0.071 ms
> 
> 
> If I use a small users home directory as a test to see if everything is 
> working ok I am able to successful complete a backup. Which is leading me to 
> think that this has something to do with the files I'm encountering in a full 
> system backup.


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