On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ricardo Melendez
<r.melendez AT lipu.com DOT mx> wrote:
> Hi, I need to make a backup and free disk space on remote backed up
> computer.
>
> I launch the following via shell with good results, the files are deleted on
> remote computer.
>
> rsync -av --remove-source-files user@remotepc:/backedup/folder /localfolder
>
> But I need to do this via the web inteface of backuppc, I insert an extra
> parameter on RsyncArgs with --remove-source-files.
>
> But when trying to backup I get the following error at log file:
>
> full backup started for directory /cygdrive/c/tempo (baseline backup #1)
>
> 2012-06-27 15:00:48 Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
> 2012-06-27 15:00:53 Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
>
> The backup run successful without the extra parameter
> (--remove-source-files)
>
> What could be the problem??

The server-side rsync in backuppc is a re-implementation in perl that
knows how to compare against the compressed copies.  It probably
doesn't understand the --remove-source-files option, even though the
work would be done at the other end.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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