On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:48 PM, David Williams
<dwilliams AT dtw-consulting DOT com> wrote:
>
> For some strange reason backuppc seems to be failing nightly with the error 
> message below.  Best I can tell this is at the end of the /home directory.  I 
> am not sure exactly what the issue is so I am hoping that someone can help me 
> home into the exact issue. This is the only errors that I am seeing.  Any 
> help is much appreciated.
>
>
>
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 86 filesExist, 135056137 sizeExist, 1318103 
> sizeExistComp, 715 filesTotal, 250893372 sizeTotal
>
> Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 512 () status)
>
> Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 512 () status)
>
> Saving this as a partial backup, replacing the prior one (got 8100 and 1113 
> files versus 0)

Is this a localhost backup?  And if so, have you set it up to use sudo
or are you using ssh?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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