Re: [BackupPC-users] Got fatal error during xfer

[Ralf G. <Ralf@RalfGross.de>]

Hi,

sorry for the late reply, I was out of office for a few days.

>> I started a full backupc with /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f
>> -v ehl01
>>
>> At the beginning of the backup I get the following errors.
>>
>> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root ehl01 /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C
>> /home --totals .
>> started full dump, share=3D/home
>> Xfer PIDs are now 25581,25580
>> xferPids 25581,25580
>> cmdExecOrEval: about to exec /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root ehl01 /bin/=
tar
>> -c -v -f - -C /home --totals .
>> tarExtract:
>> tarExtract: ./: checksum error at
>>   create     0       0/0           0
>
> BackupPC_tarExtact is unhappy about the tar file delivered by the
> command you have used.
>
> What is the remote machine type and tar version?

It a Compaq DL380 G1 Server, Suse Linux 7.3, kernel 2.4.10-4GB, tar (GNU
tar) 1.13.93.

I know this is real old, but I can't update the server to a more recent O=
S...

> What happens when you run:
>
>     su backuppc
>     /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root ehl01 /bin/tar -c -f - -C /home --
> totals . | tar -tvf -
>

backuppc@WL000346:/tmp$ /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root ehl01 /bin/tar -c -=
f
- -C /home --totals . | tar -tvf -
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
Gesamtzahl geschriebener Bytes: 37915238400 (35GB, 4.5MB/s)
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

And a check with du -sb

ehl01:~ # du -sb /home
38287355904     /home


> I'd like to see the tar output.  Could you try running this on a small
> directory that still fails, and send me the entire tar file off list?
>
>     /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root ehl01 /bin/tar -c -f - -C /home --
> totals . > tar.out

That might be a problem. The server stores development data, I'm sure I
will get in trouble sending this data to you ;)

> ...or run it on the original /home, and use dd or similar to send me
> just the first 1MB or so.

Anything more I can do without sending you the data?

Ralf