From: Loren S. <lor...@gm...> - 2010-08-21 04:02:49
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Thanks Allen, I forgot to mention that. It's a usb hard drive formatted to ext3, like my internal drive. Loren On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:33 PM, ALSto <all...@ro...> wrote: > --- On Fri, 8/20/10, Loren Serfass <lor...@gm...> wrote: > > From: Loren Serfass <lor...@gm...> > Subject: [BackupPC-users] set-up question: how do I avoid "Cannot open: > Permission denied" and "0 bytes"? Please help! > To: bac...@li... > Date: Friday, August 20, 2010, 9:50 PM > > Hello, > I am a new user of this software and new to this list. Apologies for > the long email, but I want to make it clear exactly where I am in order to > avoid wasting your time with back-and-forth. Please be patient and help me, > because I have spent hours and hours following the provided instructions, > reading user forums, and experimenting. Posting this is my very last > resort. If you find a glaring gap in my knowledge or something obvious that > I did wrong, I would be overjoyed. > > For background: I am working with BackupPC version 3.1.0-4, installed > by synaptic onto Debian lenny (I'd rather not install from the more recent > source). I am trying to back up my internal hard drive onto an external > hard drive which is mounted at /var/lib/backuppc. > > I have read the documentation, the ssh setup instructions, and the > localhost instructions from the following websites. > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/localhost.html > > > > My progress so far: > > ---BackupPC starts properly when run from the root account and I can log > onto the interface in a web browser. (I get "start-stop-daemon: command not > found" when I run it as the backuppc user.) > > > ---After following instructions, the ssh seems to be set up properly, since > running "ssh -l root localhost whoami" as the backuppc user prints just > "root." (This is the test given in the ssh instructions). > > > ---I have enabled the backuppc user to use sudo with the commands /bin/tar > and /usr/bin/rsync. I'm pretty sure these are working correctly because > when I am logged into a terminal as backuppc I can still tar a file that has > -rw------- permissions and root ownership. > > > ---I have tried both tar and rsync as the XferMethod. I have changed the > TarClientCmd and RsyncClientCmd to use sudo. I tried to do it as described > on the localhost FAQ (though this is one of the more difficult parts for > me). > > > ---There are cpool, log, pc, pool, and trash directories in > /var/lib/backuppc. Each has permissions drwxr-x--- Each is owned by > backuppc and has group backuppc. > > ---I have excluded /var/lib/backuppc from the backups, and made a few other > minor changes. > > > HOWEVER: > > When I request a full backup of localhost, I STILL get "Cannot open: > Permission denied" errors in the log file. The problem files all have > -rw------- permissions, so it seems that tar isn't working properly when run > through the program although it works fine on that type of file when run by > the backuppc user in isolation. I have been mostly starting backuppc when > logged in as root, by the way. That seems counterintuitive to me, but when > I start it when logged on the backuppc user, I get "start-stop-daemon: > command not found". > > > Most frustrating, the log file always ends with "...full backup X complete, > 2891 files, 0 bytes, 37 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 37 other)". > The "0 bytes" part seems to mean that it didn't back up ANY data. And it > only takes a few seconds, so I know that it's not backing up. I get these > same problems after many backups and also after reinstalling/reconfiguring, > so it's very consistent. > > > Perplexingly, it seems to be trying to back up only the /etc directory. > Why isn't it doing the whole / directory? That's what I tried to set up. I > just want to back up my whole hard drive onto an external drive. > > > Are these problems easy to solve, or should I switch away from backuppc? > If so, could you recommend something easy? > > Thank you for your time. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi Loren; > > Before delving to far and sorry a back-forth question... What type of > external HDD do you have? If it is USB, what file system is it formatted > with? > > Allen... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > |