Recent changes to Home

Home modified by Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:57:56 -0000

--- v2
+++ v3
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 This site is deprecated.  Please visit the new [Github project page](https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc).
+
+An active support community may be reached by subscribing to  backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Home modified by Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:54:13 -0000

--- v1
+++ v2
@@ -1,8 +1 @@
-Welcome to your wiki!
-
-This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a new page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].
-
-The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/backuppc/wiki/markdown_syntax/) syntax.
-
-[[members limit=20]]
-[[download_button]]
+This site is deprecated.  Please visit the new [Github project page](https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc).

Discussion for Home page

Bossey 1 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:25:11 -0000

I have to say this lack of response doesn't inspire one to use backuppc. if something becomes critical one may be left in the lurch. Worst is the fact that by keeping my query in indefinitely awaiting moderation I’m unable to see it or copy it to any other part of the wiki. How very frustrating.

Discussion for Home page

Bossey 1 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:40:29 -0000

Strange this post has been publised but the one on the 14th march is still awaiting moderation. Could it just have been overlooked?

Discussion for Home page

Bossey 1 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:49:38 -0000

Hi Admins
It's been 3 days would someone kindly look at my post and tell me if it's in the wrong place as it's sitting in limbo so no one would be able to help me.

Thanks.

Discussion for Home page

Dirt Devil — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:16:32 -0000

Have 4 jobs backing up different Samba shares on a Synology NAS. Three of the jobs complete just fine but have one that fails with the tarextract error 14. Have compared the scripts and the only difference is the share path.

My host runs Ubuntu 22.04, Samba 4.21.3 and BackupPC 4.4.0 the SMB job that fails fail with this error: BackupPC_tarExtract exited with fail status 14.

Increased the debug level to 5 and that breaks it even faster with the "Too many smbtar errors (50001)" message so went back to 1.

Changed $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} to 0.

Tried increasing the [ClientTimeout] from 72000 to 144000 and it just slows the job down to at the end fail with status 14.

I'm out of ideas and getting tired on running in circles chasing an answer that apparently no one has.

Discussion for Home page

Justin Magers — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:24:08 -0000

I have BackupPC running in a docker instance on a host (hostname backup). BackupPC fails to ping a particular backup host (backmeup.attlocal.net):

2024-10-01 17:00:15 no ping response from backmeup.attlocal.net
2024-10-01 17:00:15 can't ping backmeup.attlocal.net (client = backmeup); exiting

However, if I run the gethostbyname() method inside the docker instance, it seems to work. It should be noted that backmeup.attlocal.net is a host with DHCP = 0.

$ sudo docker exec -it backuppc perl -e 'print(gethostbyname("backmeup.attlocal.net") ? "ok\n" : "not found\n");'
ok

I can successfully ping backmeup.attlocal.net from outside the docker containier (i.e. from host backup):

$ ping -v -c 1 backmeup.attlocal.net
ping: sock4.fd: 3 (socktype: SOCK_RAW), sock6.fd: 4 (socktype: SOCK_RAW), hints.ai_family: AF_UNSPEC

ai->ai_family: AF_INET, ai->ai_canonname: 'backmeup.attlocal.net'
PING backmeup.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from homeportal (192.168.1.254): icmp_seq=1 ident=35135 ttl=62 time=794 ms

--- backmeup.attlocal.net ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 794.477/794.477/794.477/0.000 ms

But I cannot ping the host from inside the docker container:

$ sudo docker exec -it backuppc ping -v -c 1 backmeup.attlocal.net
ping: sock4.fd: 3 (socktype: SOCK_DGRAM), sock6.fd: 4 (socktype: SOCK_DGRAM), hints.ai_family: AF_UNSPEC

ping: backmeup.attlocal.net: Try again

I can also ping the host backmeup.attlocal.net using it's IP address from inside the docker container:

$ sudo docker exec -it backuppc ping -v -c 1 192.168.1.99
ping: sock4.fd: 3 (socktype: SOCK_DGRAM), sock6.fd: 4 (socktype: SOCK_DGRAM), hints.ai_family: AF_UNSPEC

ai->ai_family: AF_INET, ai->ai_canonname: '192.168.1.99'
PING 192.168.1.99 (192.168.1.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=125 time=906 ms

--- 192.168.1.99 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 905.745/905.745/905.745/0.000 ms

Host backmeup.attlocal.net is a Windows 11 host. I am able to ping other Windows 11 hosts and linux hosts normally.

Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to troubleshoot?

Discussion for Home page

Timo Lehikoinen — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 10:12:30 -0000

I have used BackupPC for several years already. Now I am facing a peculiar phenomena: Automatic backups always fail saying "SSH Timeout" on one Windows PC, but running the same command (I copied it from the log-file) as user backuppc always succeeds. And this is happening only with one of my hosts.
Any ideas?

BR,
Timo

Discussion for Home page

RodyMens — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:01:36 -0000

Hi, I am relatively new to Git. Does BackupPc also work for Windows?
I read Windows on the following page: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
But I can only seem to find tar.gz files which I can not execute in Windows.
Thank you in advance!

Discussion for Home page

MJ Storm — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:46:56 -0000

Hi,

Using backuppc 4.2.1 and it is only backing up the folder structure, fresh installl tried fedora 27-29 and all the same. no error, if i check the backup info, see's the files say's they were backuped up but when i check the folders there are no files in any folder.

Been looking on line for the past several days, can find nothing. have any idea's on what i might have done wrong. same setup with fedora 24 and backuppc 3.2 works fine.