Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems backing up

[Craig B. <cr...@at...>]

> >>2002/5/29 10:00:00 server1: Can't call method "write" on an undefined 
> >>value at /opt/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Tar.pm line 130.

> I did a chown -R backuppc:admins /home/backuppc (my $DataDir), so 
> everything is owned by backuppc.  I started it manually, after su'ing to 
> the backuppc user.

This is a mystery.  What is in the $DataDir/pc/$host directory?  Is
there a file XferLOG?  I can't think of a good reason the file can't
be created/opened.  Unless of course there is an XferLOG there already
and it is owned by another user (eg: root), but that shouldn't be
the case after you did the chown...

After lines 294-295 of bin/BackupPC_dump:

    my $XferLOG = BackupPC::FileZIO->open("$Dir/XferLOG$fileExt", 1,
					 $Conf{CompressLevel});

please add something like:

    if ( !defined($XferLOG) ) {
	print(LOG $bpc->timeStamp, "Can't open $Dir/XferLOG$fileExt: $!\n");
    } else {
	print(LOG $bpc->timeStamp, "Opened $Dir/XferLOG$fileExt ok\n");
    }

What gets printed to the log file when you run it?

Craig