Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients

[Holger P. <wb...@pa...>]

Hi,

Cristian Tibirna wrote on 05.01.2007 at 16:31:28 [[BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients]:
> I recently installed a few opensuse 10.2 workstations in my network (upgrade 
> from older suse versions) and the backup of these workstations ceased to 
> work. The error is that listFileReceived() fails for the /var partition. 
> Strange is that the backup of the /root and /etc partitions are correctly 
> done beforehand.

isn't this the usual 'replace --devices by -D' problem? And it's
'fileListReceive()', not 'listFileReceived()' ;-)

> Here is the log excerpt:
> [...]
> Got remote protocol 29
> Negotiated protocol version 26
> fileListReceive() failed

Cristian Tibirna wrote on 08.01.2007 at 15:50:14 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and opensuse 10.2 clients]:
> [...]
> What imports might be the rsync protocol. It jumped from 28 to 29 somewhere 
> between rsync 2.6.3 and 2.6.8. I will report back if upgrading rsync on the 
> server fixed something.

Since BackupPC doesn't use rsync but rather File::RsyncP, I doubt it will.
Try either changing '--devices' to '-D' in your rsync args or adding
'--specials'.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Holger

P.S.: /root and /etc usually don't contain any special files. /var tends to
      contain some sockets.