Mauro Condarelli

March 18, 2016 at 6:05 AM

As said (see below) I managed to get an apparently working installation.
I sat up a test backup on localhost and manually started a backup.
Apparently everything was ok:

2016-03-18 09:44:29 full backup started for directory /volume1/homes
2016-03-18 10:27:23 full backup 0 complete, 704991 files, 26858441879 bytes, 2019784 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 2019784 other)

but the backup doesn't show up in "localhost HOME":

Host localhost Backup Summary
This PC has never been backed up!!

Apparently the datadir has been populated with something making sense
.../data/pc/localhost/0 exists and contains a subdir "f%2fvolume1%2fhomes" which is consistent with
the requested RsyncShareName(/volume1/homes).

The WEB GUI seems however unable to see this backup.

Nothe that, in order to test, I changed just the bare minimum: added host and then XferMethod, RsyncShareName and RsyncClientPath (the
latter because rsync is in a non-standard location on client)

What should I check?

Thanks in Advance
Mauro

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Mauro Condarelli

March 17, 2016 at 10:07 PM

Thanks Dan,
after fiddling a bit with strace (available as option on my synology) I found the problem.

Problem is I installed with "--no-fhs" and in this condition install process (configure.pl) and Lib.pm completely disregard whatever I define as confdir and force it to be "$topDir/conf" (see: Lib.pm#126).
I see this as a bug.
Same behavior seems present in LogDir definition (next line).

Did I miss something?
What is the right way to report such bugs? (if this indeed is a bug).

Thanks
Mauro

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Dan Pritts

March 17, 2016 at 12:54 PM

if your synology has strace, try

strace -e trace=file -o /tmp/trace.out /blah/blah/blah/BackupPC -d

that will show you all file access attempts by the script.  Alternately, search through the installed source to see where it is looking for config.pl.

This seems unlikely, but also check for selinux failures. 

both strace & selinux presume your synology is running  linux - if not, well, those won't work.

Mauro Condarelli

March 17, 2016 at 12:44 PM

Thanks Dan,
I have a config.pl:

    backuppc@syno0:~/BackupPC/conf$ ls -la
  total 96
 drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc users  4096 Mar 13 12:31 .
 drwxr-xr-x 9 backuppc users  4096 Mar 13 12:39 ..
 -rw-r----- 1 backuppc users 85652 Mar 13 12:31 config.pl
 -rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc users  2214 Mar 13 12:31 hosts

athough I did not (yet) configure it in any way (I plan to do it from the web IF) it already contains the

    $Conf{Language} = 'en';

line.

My guess is BackupPC is unable to find (or read) config.pl, but I can't understand why.
What should I check?

Any pointer welcome.

Regards
Mauro

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Dan Pritts

March 17, 2016 at 12:15 PM

I know nothing about a synology nas, but i found this in the source:

    Lib.pm:    return "No language setting" if ( !defined($bpc->{Conf}{Language}) );

My config.pl file has

    $Conf{Language} = 'en';


I wonder if you aren't getting a config.pl file at all, perhaps the source installation doesn't give you one, just an example with a different name that you are supposed to customize.

hope this helps.