Hi Les,
thank you very much for your reply.
Yes, there is a firewall between BackupPC and this specific server, so they
can't ping each other.
This situation is very common on my network environment.
I'll investigate about a possible fw issue.
>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
>Data: 06/02/2015 14.59
>A: "absolutely_free AT libero DOT it"<absolutely_free AT libero DOT it>,
>"General list for
user discussion, questions and support"<backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT
net>
>Ogg: Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with backup
>
>On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:34 AM, absolutely_free AT libero DOT it
><absolutely_free AT libero DOT it> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using Backup 3.2.1 (Debian package)
>>
>> I got this error after executing full backup through CLI:
>>
>> ..
>> ..
>> Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!
>> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
>> Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
>> cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/true
>> cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output
>> cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/true
>> cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output
>> CheckHostAlive: can't extract round-trip time (not fatal)
>> CheckHostAlive: returning 0
>> Backup aborted (Child exited prematurely)
>> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior
>> one (got 8 and 0 files versus 9)
>> dump failed: Child exited prematurely
>>
>>
>> Last successful scheduled backup is 2 week ago!
>>
>> What can I do?
>
>That just means that the remote side exited or disconnected before the
>run was finished. It looks like you've replaced the ping command with
>/bin/true. Does that mean there is something unusual about your
>network that keeps ping from working? If you go through a NAT
>gateway or statefull firewall, rsync copies of large unchanged file
>sections may let the connection time out because it appears idle.
>
>--
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
>
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