@Craig Barratt  Forgot to answer your second question.  Yes, the directory /mnt/j/Favorites does exist on akibu-desktop.  Thanks.

 

From: craigb AT gmail DOT com [mailto:craigb AT gmail DOT com] On Behalf Of Craig Barratt
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 6:43 PM
To: Akibu Flash <akibuflash AT outlook DOT com>
Cc: General list for user discussion, questions and support <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexplained Error Code 255 - BackupPC

 

Akibu,

 

It looks like the connection terminates immediately.  We need to figure out why.

 

If you run the exact ssh command as the backuppc user, do you get an error or any output?

 

su backuppcUser

/usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root akibu-desktop /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender -svvvlHogDtprce.iLsf

 

If you don't see any output, hit ^D and you should get an error like this:

 

rsync: on remote machine: (null): unknown option

rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1634) [server=3.1.1]

[server] _exit_cleanup(code=1, file=main.c, line=1634): about to call exit(1)

 

Next, are you sure that the directory /mnt/j/Favorites on akibu-desktop exists?

Craig

 

 

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Akibu Flash <akibuflash AT outlook DOT com> wrote:

Thanks @Craig Barratt  The XferLOG beginning of the XferLOG is below.  Please advise if you see anything therein.  Thanks again.   

 

(Thestrace is showing the dynamic linking during startup of ssh, which isn't particularly relevant.  It's not showing the files being backed up.

 

What we are missing is the log output from XferLOG.  That has the more detailed information (eg, exact rsync / ssh args).  Can you send that please?  You'll find it in the per-PC backup directory, eg: /data/BackupPC/pc/clientName/XferLOG.bad.z.  Use BackupPC_zcat to uncompress it.

Craig)

 

XferLOG file /mnt/backup_disks/backuppc/pc/akibu-desktop/XferLOG.0.z created 2017-06-11 18:00:44
Backup prep: type = full, case = 1, inPlace = 1, doDuplicate = 0, newBkupNum = 0, newBkupIdx = 0, lastBkupNum = , lastBkupIdx =  (FillCycle = 0, noFillCnt = )
Running: /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /mnt/backup_disks/backuppc --bpc-host-name akibu-desktop --bpc-share-name /mnt/j/Favorites --bpc-bkup-num 0 --bpc-bkup-comp 3 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1 --bpc-bkup-inode0 1 --bpc-attrib-new --bpc-log-level 9 -e /usr/bin/ssh\ -q\ -x\ -l\ root -vvv --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync --super --recursive --protect-args --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --times --links --hard-links --delete --partial --log-format=log:\ %o\ %i\ %B\ %8U,%8G\ %9l\ %f%L --stats --checksum --timeout=72000 akibu-desktop:/mnt/j/Favorites/ /
full backup started for directory /mnt/j/Favorites
Xfer PIDs are now 3643
This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc
bpc_lib_conf_init: topDir = /mnt/backup_disks/backuppc, logLevel = 9
bpc_path_create(/mnt/backup_disks/backuppc/pc/akibu-desktop/0)
bpc_attrib_backwardCompat: WriteOldStyleAttribFile = 0, KeepOldAttribFiles = 0
opening connection using: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root akibu-desktop /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender -svvvlHogDtprce.iLsf
protected args: --timeout=72000 --numeric-ids . /mnt/j/Favorites/
rsync_bpc: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
bpc_sysCall_cleanup: doneInit = 1
RefCnt Deltas for new backup
Uncompressed HT:
Compressed HT:
Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 1 inode
Parsing done: nFilesTotal = 0
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.6]
[Receiver] _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=629): about to call exit(255)
rsync_bpc exited with fatal status 255 (65280) (rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.6])
Xfer PIDs are now
Got fatal error during xfer (rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.6])
Backup aborted (rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.6])
BackupFailCleanup: nFilesTotal = 0, type = full, BackupCase = 1, inPlace = 1, lastBkupNum =
Removing empty backup #0
Xfer PIDs are now 3663
BackupPC_backupDelete: removing #0
BackupPC_backupDelete: No prior backup for merge
Xfer PIDs are now 3664,3663
BackupPC_refCountUpdate: computing totals for host akibu-desktop
bpc_lib_conf_init: topDir = /mnt/backup_disks/backuppc, logLevel = 9
bpc_attrib_backwardCompat: WriteOldStyleAttribFile = 0, KeepOldAttribFiles = 0
BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host akibu-desktop got 0 errors (took 0 secs)
BackupPC_refCountUpdate total errors: 0
Xfer PIDs are now 3663
BackupPC_backupDelete: got 0 errors
Xfer PIDs are now
Finished BackupPC_backupDelete, status = 0 (running time: 0 sec)
Xfer PIDs are now
Running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -h akibu-desktop -f on akibu-desktop
Xfer PIDs are now 3665
BackupPC_refCountUpdate: computing totals for host akibu-desktop
bpc_lib_conf_init: topDir = /mnt/backup_disks/backuppc, logLevel = 9
bpc_attrib_backwardCompat: WriteOldStyleAttribFile = 0, KeepOldAttribFiles = 0
BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host akibu-desktop got 0 errors (took 0 secs)
BackupPC_refCountUpdate total errors: 0
Xfer PIDs are now
Finished BackupPC_refCountUpdate (running time: 0 sec)
Xfer PIDs are now

 

 

 

 

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From: Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2017 6:32 PM
To: mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org; General list for user discussion, questions and support
Cc: Craig Barratt
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexplained Error Code 255 - BackupPC

 

The strace is showing the dynamic linking during startup of ssh, which isn't particularly relevant.  It's not showing the files being backed up.

 

What we are missing is the log output from XferLOG.  That has the more detailed information (eg, exact rsync / ssh args).  Can you send that please?  You'll find it in the per-PC backup directory, eg: /data/BackupPC/pc/clientName/XferLOG.bad.z.  Use BackupPC_zcat to uncompress it.

Craig

 

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Michael Stowe <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org> wrote:

On 2017-06-09 08:10, Akibu Flash wrote:

Just bumping this again. Any thoughts on how to resolve the below? Thanks.

FROM: Akibu Flash <akibuflash AT outlook DOT com> SENT: Monday, June 5, 2017 7:27:34 AM TO: Holger Parplies; Holger Parplies (wbppc AT parplies DOT de) CC: General list for user discussion, questions and support SUBJECT: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexplained Error Code 255 – BackupPC

Thanks @Holger Parplies (wbppc AT parplies DOT de) for your reply. See below:

-----Original Message----- From: Holger Parplies [wbppc AT parplies DOT de] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 3:31 PM To: Akibu Flash <akibuflash AT outlook DOT com> Cc: General list for user discussion, questions and support <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexplained Error Code 255 – BackupPC

Hi,

Akibu Flash wrote on 2017-05-29 05:27:04 +0000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Unexplained Error Code 255 – BackupPC]:

[…] I am running backuppc version 4.41 on a Debian computer.

wow … where did you get that version from?

- I must have been asleep when I wrote version 4.4.1.  I meant

version 4.1.1.

When I start a backup, it appears to properly connect to my Windows computer and then gives me an error message. ?Got fatal error

during

xfer (rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(629) [Receiver=3.0.9.6])? […] Please note that I am able to

ssh

and rsync into the Windows computer manually from the linux computer

^^^^^^^^

without problem.

Also without extraenous output? You seem to be using rsync over ssh, and rsync is quite fussy about messages that it does not expect. As a rule of thumb, to a Linux computer,

% ssh clientcomputer true

%

should immediately display the next prompt as indicated above, i.e. nothing extra, not even blanks or newlines. For Windoze, your mileage may vary, but it probably won't. The actual invokation used by BackupPC (or rather rsync_bpc) might include extra options to ssh, e.g. -q -x -l someuser … include those when testing.

- Correct, Holger.  I am using rsync over ssh and ssh seems to

work without a problem. When I run the test you suggested: “$ssh targetcomputer true”, I merely get the prompt in response “$”. Strace seems to confirm that ssh is working correctly as when I ssh into the targetcomputer from the command line, and while running running strace on the targetcomputer, all seems to work as expected. In addition, when I rsync into the targetcomputer from the command line, rsync appears to work just fine.

However, when I use the backuppc program to rsync into the very same targetcomputer, I get the Unexplained Error Code 255 message. Below shows the ssh strace when I started a manual backuppc backup of some files on the targetcomputer, if that helps. My log level is up to 9, but not much information is being generated. I am unclear of how to diagnose as I am not that versed in linux. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Akibu.

Strace command used: $sudo strace -f -v -e open /etc/init.d/ssh restart

strace: Process 11860 attached [pid 11860] open("/proc/self/oom_score_adj", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 10 [pid 11860] open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/dev/null", O_RDWR) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/proc/11860/fd", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/etc/gai.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_compat.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_nis.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 11860] open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) [pid 11860] open("/dev/null", O_RDWR) = 4 strace: Process 11861 attached [pid 11861] open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK) = 6 [pid 11861] +++ exited with 255 +++ [pid 11860] open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 [pid 11860] +++ exited with 255 +++ --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=11860, si_uid=0, si_status=255, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---

Err.

What, exactly, are you trying to resolve? I suspect you've gotten no answer because many people looked and said, well, that's obvious, don't back up the /dev directory, because it's dynamically created. While you're at it, don't back up /proc, /sys, or /tmp.

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