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I have recently moved my server from Fedora to Scientific
Linux 6.1 .
I installed the backuppc binary from el6 and configured the
system to use Mod_perl. At first the test back ups seemed to
be working but when I try to do a full backup based on the
host configuration files backuppc will only back up the root
'/' file system. Partitions in fstab that are mounted at
specific mount points return empty dumps. There are a number
of error messages that have been recorded. The first is when
I start backuppc:

# /etc/init.d/backuppc start
Starting BackupPC:
[ OK ]
/etc/BackupPC//config.pl did not return a true value at -
line 1.
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.

This must be do to the reading of the perl files in
INSTALL_DIR/bin

The following lines are the errors I get when backuppc
attempts to descend into mountpoints. This occurs on the
server as well as on network clients.

full backup started for directory /data/bilbo (baseline backup #163)
Running: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender\
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links\
--hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive\
--one-file-system --exclude= --ignore-times . /data/bilbo/
Xfer PIDs are now 29909
Got remote protocol 30
Negotiated protocol version 28
Sent include: /bin
Sent include: /boot
Sent include: /data
Sent include: /dev
Sent include: /etc
Sent include: /home
Sent include: /lib
Sent include: /lib64
Sent include: /opt
Sent include: /root
Sent include: /sbin
Sent include: /srv
Sent include: /usr
Sent include: /var
Sent exclude: /*
Sent exclude: cache
Sent exclude: /data/bilbo/backup
Sent exclude: /data/tmp
Sent exclude: tmp
Sent exclude: *.tmp
Sent exclude: lost+found
Sent exclude: /var/empty
Sent exclude: /var/lock
Sent exclude: /var/run
Sent exclude: /var/spool
Sent exclude: *.~
Sent exclude: /sys
Xfer PIDs are now 29909,29911
[ skipped 1 lines ]
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /data)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /data)
Saving this as a partial backup, replacing the prior one (got 110083 and 0 files versus 0)
full backup started for directory /; updating partial #164

#####################End of Output #############

I've tried to search the archives for relevant issues and
haven't found a match to my problem.
Just to reiterate the backups of the root file system are
successful it is erroring out on the mounted sub-partitions.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Jim Kelly-Rand


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On 11/23/2011 08:31 PM, jbk wrote:

BackupPC-3.2.1-6.el6.x86_64
I have recently moved my server from Fedora to Scientific
Linux 6.1 .
I installed the backuppc binary from el6 and configured
the system to use Mod_perl. At first the test back ups
seemed to be working but when I try to do a full backup
based on the host configuration files backuppc will only
back up the root '/' file system. Partitions in fstab that
are mounted at specific mount points return empty dumps.
There are a number of error messages that have been
recorded. The first is when I start backuppc:

# /etc/init.d/backuppc start
Starting BackupPC:
[ OK ]
/etc/BackupPC//config.pl did not return a true value at -
line 1.
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.

This error went away. I'm not sure why. I did a Meld Diff of
my config.pl that was created in 2008 and the one that comes
with the this latest version and noticed some parameter
quoting changes like parameters that were numerical values
were no longer captured in ' ' single quotes. I didn't make
any changes to my config to reflect this.

The following lines are the errors I get when backuppc
attempts to descend into mountpoints. This occurs on the
server as well as on network clients.

full backup started for directory /data/bilbo (baseline
backup #163)
Running: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender\
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links\
--hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive\
--one-file-system --exclude= --ignore-times . /data/bilbo/
Xfer PIDs are now 29909
Got remote protocol 30
Negotiated protocol version 28
Sent include: /bin
Sent include: /boot
Sent include: /data
Sent include: /dev
Sent include: /etc
Sent include: /home
Sent include: /lib
Sent include: /lib64
Sent include: /opt
Sent include: /root
Sent include: /sbin
Sent include: /srv
Sent include: /usr
Sent include: /var
Sent exclude: /*
Sent exclude: cache
Sent exclude: /data/bilbo/backup
Sent exclude: /data/tmp
Sent exclude: tmp
Sent exclude: *.tmp
Sent exclude: lost+found
Sent exclude: /var/empty
Sent exclude: /var/lock
Sent exclude: /var/run
Sent exclude: /var/spool
Sent exclude: *.~
Sent exclude: /sys
Xfer PIDs are now 29909,29911
[ skipped 1 lines ]
Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /data)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /data)
Saving this as a partial backup, replacing the prior one
(got 110083 and 0 files versus 0)
full backup started for directory /; updating partial #164

#####################End of Output #############

I've tried to search the archives for relevant issues and
haven't found a match to my problem.
Just to reiterate the backups of the root file system are
successful it is erroring out on the mounted sub-partitions.


OK I've done some testing by re-creating my per host config
file and have succeeded in backing up the sub-partitions. It
seems that the syntax has changed for the RsyncShareName and
BackupFilesOnly fields when using the CGI interface. I find
this interface not to be easy to understand below the
heading Include/Exclude. I assume for the shares listed
under RsyncShareName that I want to create a list of
subdirectories under BackupFilesOnly that correspond. There
is the _New_Key_ field with the _Add_ button following,
which is what I used to add the listing for each sub
directory to include. But, for each new listing I create a
whole new set of buttons appear along side. I've ignored
these for now as I don't have a whole lot of time to experiment.

So comparing my host.config.pl

2008 version

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'*' =>[
'/subdir1',
'/subdir2',
'/subdir3'
]
};

2011 version

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'/subdir1' => [
' '
],
/subdir2' => [
' '
],
'/subdir3' => [
' '
]
};

So for what ever reason the new format works though the
commentary in the config.pl says that old 2008 version
should work also. I always use the CGI to create the
configurations, I assume there is less chance for error that
way.
till next
Jim Kelly-Rand





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On 11/25/2011 12:09 PM, jbk wrote:
On 11/23/2011 08:31 PM, jbk wrote:

BackupPC-3.2.1-6.el6.x86_64
I have recently moved my server from Fedora to Scientific
Linux 6.1 .
I installed the backuppc binary from el6 and configured
the system to use Mod_perl. At first the test back ups
seemed to be working but when I try to do a full backup
based on the host configuration files backuppc will only
back up the root '/' file system. Partitions in fstab
that are mounted at specific mount points return empty
dumps.



I've ignored these for now as I don't have a whole lot of
time to experiment.
Ignorance is bliss until you start backing up what you don't
want. I now understand the hierarchy of the scripts below
and have revised the format as follows:

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'*' =>[
'/subdir1',
'/subdir2',
'/subdir3'
]
};

The above applies to all mount points.
The below applies to a specific mount point.

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'mountpoint' =>[
'/subdir1',
'/subdir2',
'/subdir3'
]
};

This format carries over to the BackupFilesExclude.

I'm surprised that my old _client.pl files worked given my
prior assumptions, but except for one restore I've never
really checked what was actually getting backed up for the
last three years.



So comparing my host.config.pl

2008 version

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'*' =>[
'/subdir1',
'/subdir2',
'/subdir3'
]
};

2011 version

The below treated the sub directories as separate mount
points. I'm not sure how it was working but I noticed that
this format when applied to exclusions was not.


$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'/subdir1' => [
' '
],
/subdir2' => [
' '
],
'/subdir3' => [
' '
]
};

So for what ever reason the new format works though the
commentary in the config.pl says that old 2008 version
should work also. I always use the CGI to create the
configurations, I assume there is less chance for error
that way.
till next
Jim Kelly-Rand






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contains a definitive record of customers, application performance,
security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this
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