David Trebacz Blog

My daughter got a MacBook Pro for college. She studying journalism and photography at Drake University and a Apple computer was heavily suggested for the magazine curriculum. So we dutifully went out and got a cool MacBook Pro. A big change for us since all of our machines are currently run Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu Linux. When she came home over Thanksgiving break, I decided to set up backuppc to also back up her local files when she was at home. Using backuppc it's nicely transparent to everyone involved. For me it's one central server that backs up all of our PC's and just one place I need to manage storage (I just added a 3TB drive to the mirror array ). Should be pretty simple, since it's all linux underneath. Essentially the process was: Exchange public SSH keys between the two machines (MacBookPro and backuppc server) and enabled SSH on the MacBook. Took me almost as much time to figure how to fire up a terminal session.  http://gerwick.ucsd.edu/...

BackupPC giving error all of a sudden. full backup started for directory cDrive (baseline backup #0) Read EOF: Connection reset by peer Tried again: got 0 bytes Error connecting to rsync daemon at 192.168.0.199:873: unexpected response Got fatal error during xfer (unexpected response) Backup aborted (unexpected response) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) Turns out the problem seems to be an update of Avast antivirus has now decided to (quietly) block connections on port 873 on my Windows XP machine. If I disable antivirus protection the backup happens wonderfully. Of course then the machine isn't protected by my anti-virus. After digging into it deeper it seems that the offending Avast tool is the "behavior shield". By going into the Behavior Shield>Expert Settings>Trusted Processes>Browse>Add and adding rsync.exe and cygrunsrv.exe. Now Avast n...