Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
>> Of course after having mailed to this list about how good BackupPC is and how
>> it worked flawlessly, I ran into a problem with one of our ancient
>> SGI-machines. The error I get is seen below.
>>
>> full backup started for directory /etc
>> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root xxx.yyy.zzz.nnn
>> /usr/sbin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D 
>> --links
>> --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /etc/
>> Xfer PIDs are now 16088
>> Got remote protocol 1920169263
>> Fatal error (bad version): /usr/sbin/rsync

Valid protocol numbers should be 30 or lower; backuppc must negotiate 28 or 
lower.  Something is very wrong here.

> 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)
>>
>> First problem was that it couldn't find the rsync executable, but I managed 
>> to
>> track it down and change the path in this particular machine's setup page in
>> BackupPC.
>>
>> After that, I got the above error message. Here however, I'm not entirely 
>> sure
>> what's causing the failed fileListReceive command. I have a hunch it might be
>> a case of BackupPC looking in the wrong place for something, just as with the
>> former rsync executabel, but what?
>>
>> Unfortunately I'm not that into Irix at all, but know enough to know that it
>> isn't quite like "normal linux".
>>
>> Would anybody who has any insights in Irix please give me a hint or two as 
>> how
>> to fix this?
> 
> What's worse, there is no dmesg, as I know of in Irix, as suggested on 
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#fileListReceive_failed...

First, make sure that there is nothing like a message-of-the-day generating 
output from the shell before rsync starts.  That's a common problem but I'm not 
sure if it causes this issue.  You should be able to test with some rsync 
commands from the backuppc server command line to see if it works at all.  If 
not and you have a compiler, I'd try to build a newer version from source.  Or 
switch to tar as the xfer method.  For that you need the gnu version of tar 
which may be named gtar if you have it at all.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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