[BackupPC-users] Failure to perform backup using rsync

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

Hi,

I have configured my backuppc to use rsyncd as transport protocol. When 
I run BackupPC_dump on a host, it prompted

Name server doesn't know about kevin; trying NetBios
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup kevin
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output querying kevin on 172.16.1.255
172.16.0.54 kevin<00>

NetBiosHostIPFind: found IP address 172.16.0.54 for host kevin
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=0.223 ms

--- 172.16.0.54 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.223/0.223/0.223/0.000 ms, pipe 2

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=0.162 ms

--- 172.16.0.54 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.162/0.162/0.162/0.000 ms, pipe 2

CheckHostAlive: returning 0.162
cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup -A 172.16.0.54
cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output Looking up status of 172.16.0.54
KEVIN <00> - B <ACTIVE>
KEVIN <03> - B <ACTIVE>
KEVIN <20> - B <ACTIVE>
..__MSBROWSE__. <01> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
LINUX <00> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>
LINUX <1d> - B <ACTIVE>
LINUX <1e> - <GROUP> B <ACTIVE>

MAC Address = 00-00-00-00-00-00


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 連線被對方重設
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

--- 172.16.0.54 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.154/0.154/0.154/0.000 ms, pipe 2

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=0.178 ms

--- 172.16.0.54 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.178/0.178/0.178/0.000 ms, pipe 2

CheckHostAlive: returning 0.178
Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 bytes)
dump failed: Unable to read 4 bytes


Anyone knows what causes that error?

Thanks.