hello i resandly installed backuppc by folowing the backuppc howto but i cant backup the /var directory from my opensuse 10.3 client. it works fine wen i remove the /var entry from config.pl file. this is the error messages: Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/freddysnet-smb/XferLOG.bad, modified 2008-03-15 14:03:27 (Extracting only Errors) Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 10.0.1.200 /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /var/ Xfer PIDs are now 8527 Got remote protocol 29 fileListReceive() failed Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed) Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed) anyone any idear?
i take it you are running this as an normal user and maybe its failing due to the /var folder is own by the root : wheel group and maybe you dont have access to read whats in some/all of the folders
permissions the client hase these permissions: drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 8 15:33 var al the other folders backup fine
info mount on the suse client /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/md0 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda3 on /srv type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) apparmor was already disabled mount on the backuppc(Ubuntu) /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)