Package: backuppc
Version: 2.1.2-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
I discovered last week that backuppc has been silently failing for
weeks. The log file would say only
Got fatal error during xfer (fileListReceive failed)
Backup aborted (fileListReceive failed)
It turns out that the problem stems from using rsync to transfer files
but not using "--specials". The result is that it chokes on things
like sockets, which I have in my home directory.
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02073.html
I attach a patch that fixes the problem.
-Steve
--- /etc/backuppc/config.pl~ 2006-01-15 20:23:10.000000000 -0500
+++ /etc/backuppc/config.pl 2006-04-29 16:23:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -1075,6 +1075,7 @@
#
# Add additional arguments here
#
+ '--specials',
];
#
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages backuppc depends on:
ii adduser 3.87 Add and remove users and groups
ii apache 1.3.34-2 versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.0 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.13.18 package maintenance system for Deb
ii exim [mail-transport-agent] 3.36-18 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.16-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.41-1 Perl module for creation and manip
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-suid 5.8.8-4 Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii samba-common 3.0.22-1 Samba common files used by both th
ii smbclient 3.0.22-1 a LanManager-like simple client fo
ii tar 1.15.1dfsg-3 GNU tar
ii wwwconfig-common 0.0.45 Debian web auto configuration
backuppc recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* backuppc/configuration-note:
* backuppc/add-lines: true
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