Re: [BackupPC-users] Achiving localhost using tar

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 13:25 -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

On 01/16 11:38 , Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> Before this problem started, it was backing up with no problem.  Then I
> started getting errors:

If you do a 'ls -al /home' using a command shell (command line) on the
machine in question does it show files, or just the usual '.' and '..'
directory entries?

Do you have exclude patterns set up for this backup, which might be
excluding all the files actually there?

What happens if you run the BackupPC dump by hand?
You'll need to run as the backuppc user for this; possibly by su'ing from
root with a command like 'su -s /bin/bash - backuppc'. It will allow you to
watch the backup take place in more detail:
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v localhost

You may have to modify that to fit your environment, based on the path to
BackupPC_dump and whatever you call 'localhost' in your /etc/backuppc/hosts
file.

Hi Carl,

Thanks for taking a look at this!

I'm running this remotely via ssh...

As ken:
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ken@archiver:/home$ ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 6 root     root 4096 2010-04-03 16:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root     root 4096 2011-12-20 14:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x 31 backuppc root 4096 2012-01-15 16:28 backuppc
drwxr-xr-x 23 jo       root 4096 2010-04-03 14:27 jo
drwxr-xr-x 49 ken      root 4096 2012-01-15 16:45 ken
drwx------ 2 root     root 4096 2010-03-10 12:06 lost+found

ken@archiver:~$ ls -al
total 804
drwxr-xr-x 49 ken root   4096 2012-01-15 16:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root   4096 2010-04-03 16:13 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken root   8650 2010-03-08 22:21 20100308.backuppc_install.txt
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 ken root   4096 2011-10-23 18:53 Desktop

AS BACKUPPC:
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backuppc@archiver:/home/ken$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v localhost
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 localhost
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.027 ms

--- localhost ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.027/0.027/0.027/0.000 ms

cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 localhost
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.031 ms

--- localhost ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.031/0.031/0.031/0.000 ms

CheckHostAlive: returning 0.031
Running: /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /home --totals .
full backup started for directory /home
started full dump, share=/home
Xfer PIDs are now 5836,5835
xferPids 5836,5835
cmdExecOrEval: about to exec /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /home --totals .
...

AND IN LOG FILE:
2012-01-16 15:28:10 full backup started for directory /home

In the terminal session it appears the job is running...

I'm going to the workshop to physically observe activity...

The machine is showing disk activity approximately every one or two seconds as if comparing files.

I'll post again when I can get a final status.

-- ken

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