Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG (IMHO): BackupPC_Dump on QNAP QTS 4.1

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

Hi,

Les Mikesell wrote on 2014-07-02 07:48:16 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] BUG (IMHO): BackupPC_Dump on QNAP QTS 4.1]:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:55 AM, Paolo Basenghi <pao...@fc...> wrote:
> > Il 30/06/2014 19:14, Les Mikesell ha scritto:
> >> I'm still confused as to what executing an ssh command has to do with
> >> the smb.conf file. [...]
> > It turned out that are the QNAP ssh and scp binaries that produce the
> > warning about smb.conf parameter, not the smbclient like I guessed.

I believe there was also a suspect 'sudo' case?

> > I opened a support ticket with QNAP.
> >
> > But why does BackupPC rsync method block until timeout upon this warning?

Good question.

> Does ssh work otherwise?   BackupPC isn't happy about additional text
> coming ahead of the rsync startup, but that usually causes a quick
> 'version mismatch' error.   During the timeout period you could check
> that rsync is actually running at the other end.

Bad question :-).

You might want to reread the original message:

Paolo Basenghi wrote on 2014-06-28 13:04:16 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] BUG (IMHO): BackupPC_Dump on QNAP QTS 4.1]:
> [...]
> incr backup started back to 2014-06-25 20:00:12 (backup #238) for directory /
> started incr dump, share=/
> Running: /opt/bin/ssh -q -x -l root afrodite /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /
> Xfer PIDs are now 10454
> xferPids 10454
> Got remote protocol 1869506377
> Fatal error (bad version): Ignoring unknown parameter "conn log"
> 
> Sent include: /root
> [...]
> Sent exclude: /opt/*
> fileListReceive() failed
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
> Backup aborted by user signal
> dump failed: fileListReceive failed

BackupPC *does* in fact detect a "bad version" as expected. I have no idea
why it would continue anyway. Note that it *does* continue, not wait for ssh
to exit or something like that.

Regards,
Holger