Re: [webmin-l] Issue with backing up *via ssh* from a Linux system to a NetBSD system using the "Filesystem Backup" module

[Christopher P. <cj...@ex...>]

[Forwarding this to the list -- I hope that you don't mind]

Thanks for the reply.

Although I don't use scp often, I've just tested scp on the command line 
in both directions (Linux <--> NetBSD) and it works.

Despite this, backup via ssh from Linux to NetBSD using the Webmin 
module (still) doesn't work. :-(

(Since Webmin isn't installed on the NetBSD system, I'm afraid that I 
can't test backing up from NetBSD to Linux using the Webmin module.)

C.

Le 2022-10-15 16:16, Patrick Shoaf a écrit :

> I personally have not used the module in webmin, I have always written 
> scripts with rsync commands to do my backups. Question does scp work 
> between Linux and netbsd? That may lead to a clue on failure.
> 
> On October 15, 2022 9:30:02 AM EDT, Christopher Pinon <cj...@ex...> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been using Webmin for a few years and am currently using v. 2.000 
>> .
>> 
>> I've noticed a significant issue with backing up *via ssh* from a 
>> Linux system to a NetBSD system using the "Filesystem Backup" module. 
>> In fact, this is an issue that I've always experienced with Webmin, 
>> but I thought that I would finally ask about it. :-)
>> 
>> First of all, backing up *via ftp* from Linux to NetBSD works fine 
>> (whether by dump or by tar), and this is what I've been doing.
>> 
>> However, backing up *via ssh* from Linux to NetBSD doesn't work for 
>> some reason. If I start a backup from Linux to NetBSD, the process 
>> begins and takes a long time and finally gives up (or after a long 
>> time, I give up and terminate the process). There's never ever any 
>> trace of the dump or tar file on the NetBSD system.
>> 
>> (As a sanity check, backing up via ssh from Linux to Linux *does* work 
>> for me.)
>> 
>> Naturally, ssh/sftp work fine on the NetBSD system -- after all, it's 
>> (standard) OpenSSH.
>> 
>> Webmin doesn't display any error message, as far as I can tell: the 
>> backup process simply doesn't succeed after a long while. None of the 
>> files miniserv.error , miniserv.log , or webmin.log seems to indicate 
>> that anything went wrong, as far as I can tell.
>> 
>> I wanted to ask: is this a known issue? Where could I look for the 
>> source of the error?
>> 
>> I'd be grateful for any advice.
>> 
>> C.
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