[BackupPC-users] Problem Backing Up a Mac Client Using Rsync

[Jon Forrest]

I'm mostly successfully running backuppc 3.1 on a
Centos5.1 server. I say mostly because 5 of the 6 clients
are being backed up just fine. However, I'm having trouble
getting the 6th to work.

The 6th client is running MacOS 10.5.1, which contains
rsync 2.6.3. There are ~380GB to backup for one user
on this client. These files are under his home directory.

There are two strange things that happen when I try
to do a full backup of his Mac:

1) The first is that the XferLOG somehow seems to contain the
actual data being backed up! I'm showing a fragment from the
beginning below (does the problem with ls matter?):

full backup started for directory /Users/jack
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l jack example.cchem.berkeley.edu /usr/bin/rsync 
--server --sender 
--numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times 
--block-size=2048 --recursive 
--checksum-seed=32761 --ignore-times . /Users/jack/
Xfer PIDs are now 16930
Got remote protocol 1702057263
Fatal error (bad version): /Users/jack/.alias: line 1: unalias: ls: not found

Remote[40]: .alias: line 1: unalias: ls: not found
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2) The other is that the remote rsync process doesn't seem to make
much progress. The following is the output of two different
ps commands on the Mac client. The two commands were run roughly
12 hours apart:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ps aux | fgrep rsync
jack     56710   0.0  2.1   644628  43600   ??  Ss    3:02PM   0:36.49 
/usr/bin/rsync --server 
--sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times 
--block-size=2048 
--recursive --checksum-seed=32761 --ignore-times . /Users/jack/
jack     56953   0.0  0.0   590472    232 s012  R+    3:15PM   0:00.00 fgrep 
rsync
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ps aux | fgrep rsync
jack     56710   0.0  2.1   644628  43600   ??  Ss    3:02PM   0:36.51 
/usr/bin/rsync --server 
--sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times 
--block-size=2048 
--recursive --checksum-seed=32761 --ignore-times . /Users/jack/

For what it's worth, here's the client configuration. It's nothing
special.

$Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l jack $host $rsyncPath $argList+';
$Conf{RsyncClientPath} = '/usr/bin/rsync';
$Conf{RsyncClientRestoreCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l jack $host $rsyncPath 
$argList+';
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
   '/Users/jack'
];

Other Macs with the same configuration, but less data, are being backed up
fine.

Any ideas?

Cordially,

-- 
Jon Forrest
Research Computing Support
College of Chemistry
173 Tan Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720-1460
510-643-1032
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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