Re: [BackupPC-users] unable to link, botch no matches, duplicate backups

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Geoff Crompton writes:

> At the moment I have only one machine I'm backing up. This configuration 
> snippet comes from the config file for that one machine. In 
> /etc/backuppc/config.pl I have:
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/';
> However I suspect that this isn't causing the duplication, as I saw no 
> evidence that it was trying to backup / on that machine.
> It seems that the next backup (an incremental) worked fine.
> It is possible that when I started the full backup, I did have duplicates in 
> the $Conf{RsyncShareName}, which I later corrected. It's hard to know 
> when I did which changes to the files, did I do something like that 
> after the backup started, or before?

This is the most likely explanation - the duplicate entry was there
when the backup started.

> On a side note, is there a way of getting Log information from backuppc 
> without using the web interface? (At home I can't access the web interface).

Yes.  Use BackupPC_zcat to print the file:

    /path/to/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat /path/to/data/pc/XferLOG.nnn.z | more
    more /path/to/data/pc/LOG
    more /path/to/data/log/LOG

Craig