Nick,
I've installed rsnapshot on my server. I tried to get it to pull from my
desktop, but as with pushing I can't get ssh to connect.
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require Lchown
Lchown module loaded successfully
Setting locale to POSIX "C"
echo 32203 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
mv /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.3/ \
/backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.4/
mv /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.2/ \
/backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.3/
mv /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.1/ \
/backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.2/
/bin/cp -al /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.0 \
/backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.1
/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \
--include=/home/bruce2/ --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh -l root@192.168.1.129:/ \
/backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.0/root [ at ] faintfuzzies [ dot ] ca:/
ssh: connect to host root port 22: Connection timed out
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2]
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rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot -VD alpha
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ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 0.99609375 while processing
root@192.168.1.129:/
/usr/bin/logger -p user.err -t rsnapshot[32203] /usr/bin/rsnapshot -VD \
alpha: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 0.99609375 while processing \
root@192.168.1.129:/
touch /backups/rsync-bbox/.snapshots/alpha.0/
rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
/usr/bin/logger -p user.err -t rsnapshot[32203] /usr/bin/rsnapshot -VD \
alpha: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -VD alpha: completed, but with some \
errors
On April 4, 2016 01:08:24 AM Nicholas Savage wrote:
> > Nick,
> >
> > Not too late. Still stuck at this stage. Below is my config.
> >
> > ====================================
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > # Rsync BBOX
> > backup root@192.168.1.129:/ root [ at ] faintfuzzies [ dot ] ca:/
>
> Rsnapshot for some reason isn't able to push to a remote server, so that is
> probably the reason it isn't working for you. The FAQ
> (http://rsnapshot.org/faq.html) recommends that you pull from the remote
> server instead, and have multiple configuration files. It's definitely
> inconvenient but I've never taken the time to look into why. I also feel a
> bit silly about not realizing that the listserv breaks up what it thinks
> are emails.
>
> Hope that helps!
> Nick