getting various clients to back up. My biggest problem is a Mac OS X
client, which seems to be silently failing.
In the host's log file I see multiple start attempts but with one
exception no errors:
2004/3/7 14:00:09 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/7 15:00:10 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/7 16:00:06 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/7 17:00:02 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/7 17:34:06 Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
2004/3/7 17:34:21 Dump aborted (fileListReceive failed)
2004/3/7 18:00:08 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/7 19:00:04 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/7 20:00:08 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/7 21:00:09 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/7 21:55:54 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/8 05:59:13 full backup started for directory /
2004/3/8 11:29:51 full backup started for directory /
The Last bad XferLOG (for the one that failed with an error) indicates
problems with the /Network/ directory, which I have since added to the
exclude list of my rather simple per-machine config file:
#
# rsync backup of Mac OS X machine marshmallow
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/Network/'];
When the backup runs I do hear the Mac's hard disk work a lot, so
something's happening. In the server log I see that the backup started
2004/3/8 11:29:51 Started full backup on marshmallow (pid=8011, share=/)
but never anything more. After a while the status for the machine
changes from in progress back to idle.
I do have a Debian machine that is also backed up with rsync
(flawlessly now that I've added /proc/ to the exclude list
so I do
not think it's a general issue with my rsync or backuppc configuration.
As far as I know Mac OS X has no equivalent to the /proc/ directory
that would need excluding.
My secondary problem is with a WinXP box using samba. The backups kept
aborting on large files with errors like this:
2004/3/7 21:35:25 Got fatal error during xfer (Didn't get entire file.
size=965022208, nread=72530640)
2004/3/7 21:35:35 Dump aborted (Didn't get entire file. size=965022208,
nread=72530640)
I "solved" the problem by just excluding the directory with those big
files, but it'd be nice to be able to back them up.
Thanks for any input!
-Lorrin
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