Re: Excludes causes all backups to fail...

Kevin Currie writes:

> Basically putting any exclude at all like this:
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = 'Cache/';
> 
> Causes backups to fail, because backuppc is sending the exclude
> statement to the remote box, and it's not a suitable server side
> command.    Removing the allows the backups to run correctly.
> 
> Specifically the command and error is:
> 
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root box750.undertow.2y.net /usr/bin/rsync
> - --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices --links
> - --times --block-size=2048 --recursive
> - --checksum-seed=32761 --exclude=Cache/ . /etc/
> 
> Fatal error (bad version): rsync: Error parsing options: option may be 
> supported
> on client but not on server?
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1054)
> 
> I see this at 2 different sites-- both are installed via the Debian backuppc
> package version  2.1.0-2.

The --exclude option certainly is a sender-side option, so I'm sure
that's not the problem.

The most likely issue is --checksum-seed=32761.  The --checksum-seed
option is not a standard option in rsync.  It is in rsync CVS, but not
2.6.2. You need to make sure you are running a patched remote rsync for
that option to work (there is a patch for rsync on the BackupPC SF site).

Could you re-check whether it is really the --checksum-seed option and
not the exclude option that is causing the problem?

Craig


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