[BackupPC-users] Ryncd issues

[Rick C. <rc...@dw...>]

I am trying to perform a backup using rsyncd
The host to be backup up resides on a remote network connected via ipsec
tunnel

The client and host are both running rsync version 3.0.2  protocol version
30

The daemon (remote to be backed up) set up is

/etc/rsyncd.secrets

-rw-r-----  1 root root 33 Jun 23 17:02 /etc/rsyncd.secrets
Contents:
backuppc:password 

Rsyncd.conf:

[BackupPC]
        comment = BackupPC Data Directory
        path = /data
        read only = yes
        secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
        hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24
        auth users = backuppc

The host config relating to this host xfers

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
  'BackupPC'
];

$Conf{RsyncdAuthRequired} = '1';
$Conf{RsyncdPasswd} = 'password';
$Conf{RsyncdUserName} = 'backuppc';

The error that BackupPC gives is:

full backup started for directory BackupPC
Connected to dfnsrv01:873, remote version 30
Negotiated protocol version 28
Error connecting to module BackupPC at dfnsrv01:873: auth required, but
service BackupPC is open/insecure
Got fatal error during xfer (auth required, but service BackupPC is
open/insecure)
Backup aborted (auth required, but service BackupPC is open/insecure)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior
one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

The error that the remote rsync daemon gives is
Jun 23 19:17:38 dfnsrv01 rsyncd[25783]: connect from srv2 (192.168.1.1)
Jun 23 19:17:43 dfnsrv01 rsyncd[25783]: rsync: read error: Connection reset
by peer (104)
Jun 23 19:17:43 dfnsrv01 rsyncd[25783]: rsync error: error in rsync protocol
data stream (code 12) at io.c(794) [receiver=3.0.2]


If I set both sides so they do not require authentication BackupPC gives
this error:

2008-06-23 19:00:32 full backup started for directory BackupPC
2008-06-23 19:00:32 Got fatal error during xfer (auth required, but service
BackupPC is open/insecure)
2008-06-23 19:00:37 Backup aborted (auth required, but service BackupPC is
open/insecure)
2008-06-23 19:01:06 full backup started for directory BackupPC
2008-06-23 19:01:06 Got fatal error during xfer (unexpected response: '')
2008-06-23 19:01:11 Backup aborted (unexpected response: '')


I have no idea where to go next. Clearly the rsync daemon side is *not*
open/insecure and suspect this might have something to do with the fact that
the last version of File::RsyncP is from November 2006 and something has
changed in the last *several* versions. Has anyone encountered and found a
way around this situation?


Rick Cooper



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