[BackupPC-users] Re: Unable to backup using rsync for Linux client

[Tho K. T. <kt...@sh...>]

Craig, yes. the path for rsync on client is correct. My backuppc user 
and rsync user is root, so I run the command you mentioned and nothing 
happened. I have set RsyncdAuthRequired to 0 and it shouldn't be any 
authentication during rsync, but it still prompted "Connection reset by 
peer'. Another question. Do we need to create a rsyncd.conf file in host 
pc? I have done that also, but still it prompted "Connection reset by 
peer' and the rsyncd.log is empty. Really wondering why rsync is not 
working on linux clients. For windows clients, rsyncd is working good. 
Message: 2 To: Tho Kee Thai <kt...@sh...> cc: 
bac...@li... From: Craig Barratt 
<cba...@us...> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Failure 
to perform backup using rsync Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:51:29 -0700 Tho 
Kee Thai writes:

>> I have configured my backuppc to use rsyncd as transport protocol. When 
>> I run BackupPC_dump on a host, it prompted
>> 
>> [snip]
>>
>> NetBiosInfoGet: success, returning host kevin, user kevin
>> started full dump, share=/home
>> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root kevin /usr/bin/rsync --server 
>> --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times 
>> --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --exclude=/var/spool/squid 
>> --exclude=/slocate.db --ignore-times . /home/
>> Xfer PIDs are now 21179
>> xferPids 21179
>> Rsync command pid is 21179
>> Fetching remote protocol
>> Read EOF: The connection has been reset ???????
>> Tried again: got 0 bytes
>> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
>> Got fatal error during xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>> cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 172.16.0.54
>> cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output PING 172.16.0.54 (172.16.0.54) 
>> 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from 172.16.0.54: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.154 ms
>  
>

Are you sure /usr/bin/rsync is the correct path for rsync on
the client side?

What happens when you run the ssh command manually, eg:

    su backuppc
    /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root kevin /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --exclude=/proc --exclude=/var/spool/squid --exclude=/slocate.db --ignore-times . /home/

Craig