Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't do a backup

On a side note, when I hand edit the client config, it seems that I have 
to restart BackupPC to re-read the config file. Is there another way to 
do this? I did not try a HUP.

On 8/1/11 2:47 PM, Rory Toma wrote:
> I ended up having to overwrite the tar command in my client config:
>
> $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '$tarPath --totals -c -v -f - -C $shareName';
>
>
> Let me say, the default command threw me for some time:
>
> #    $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '$tarPath -c -v -f - -C /mnt/$host/$shareName'
> #                        . ' --totals';
>
>
> as I interpreted the "." as a tar argument, rather than perl syntax. 8-)
>
>
> On 7/29/11 6:33 PM, Holger Parplies wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Rory Toma wrote on 2011-07-28 19:16:08 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] Can't do a 
>> backup]:
>>> I just got the latest version today from sourceforge and got it up and
>>> running.
>>>
>>> Here is my client config, filled in from the web form:
>>>
>>> $Conf{TarShareName} = [
>>>     '/servers/mothership/data/home/Engineering/rory'
>>> ];
>>> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
>>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>>>     '.snapshot' =>   [
>>>       ''
>>>     ]
>>> };
>> you don't have a share named '.snapshot', and the pattern '' wouldn't match
>> any files to exclude anyway. You used the web configuration editor to
>> configure the host in question, and it's apparently easy to get that bit 
>> wrong
>> (I haven't tried it yet, but it's a frequent topic here). The first part you
>> need to fill out (where you put '.snapshot') is the *share name* (or the 
>> value
>> * to make it apply to any share with no explicit entry in 
>> BackupFilesExclude),
>> after that you can add patterns for excludes. As you're using tar, see the 
>> tar
>> manual page for what you can do. The only magic I believe BackupPC does is to
>> make patterns starting with '/' be anchored to the "transfer root", so if you
>> wanted to exclude a directory
>> /servers/mothership/data/home/Engineering/rory/tmp (but not other directories
>> named 'tmp' further down), you could specify '/tmp' as an exclude.
>>
>>> Here is the error I get when trying to do a full backup, note that I can
>>> do the tar command by hand, and it spits everything out to stdout.
>> "No files dumped for share ..." means, well, that no files were dumped for 
>> the
>> share, which is in itself an error (unless configured not to be), so if your
>> tar command would work (successfully) on an empty directory, that error would
>> show up.
>>
>> But I believe that is not the case here:
>>
>>> Tar exited with error 65280 () status
>> That means the command returned a -1 exit code. You say you "can do the tar
>> command by hand" - by that you should mean running
>>
>>      ssh -q -x -n -l root kanguru env LC_ALL=C /bin/gtar -c -v -f - -C 
>> /servers/mothership/data/home/Engineering/root --totals .
>>
>> from a shell as the backuppc user, correct? No extraneous output, no password
>> or "accept host key" prompt, no ssh-agent supplying credentials? Presuming 
>> you
>> can't parse the tar file it "spits out to stdout" (well, I couldn't), pipe 
>> the
>> above command to "tar tvvf -". What does that show?
>>
>>> However, I don't see my BackupFilesExclude argument in the tar command,
>> Explained above.
>>
>>> [...]
>>> What am I missing here?
>> It's not obvious from the output.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Holger
>
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