Filesystem backup via FTP fails

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#1 Sun, 08/30/2009 - 08:18
bighost

Filesystem backup via FTP fails

Hi, I'm trying to backup filesystem to another box on my LAN using FTP. Here's what I get:

DUMP: Connection to xx.xx.xx.xx established. DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun Aug 30 11:49:53 2009 DUMP: Dumping /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 (/) to backup on host user@xx.xx.xx.xx DUMP: Label: fullbackup DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 5435119 blocks. DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Sun Aug 30 12:07:05 2009 DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 2.97% done at 536 kB/s, finished in 2:43 DUMP: 2.98% done at 224 kB/s, finished in 6:31 DUMP: Lost connection to remote host. DUMP: error reading command pipe in master: No such file or directory DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. DUMP: Broken pipe DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. DUMP: Lost connection to remote host.

Maybe I have to edit some FTP server settings to allow uploading of huge files? Upload stops when backup file size reaches ~165Mb. I am trying to backup whole / folder.

I will appreciate any help.

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 09:35
bighost

Ideas, anyone? :)

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 12:43
ronald
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Why not use sftp? I did a 7.4 gb file today over sftp in the LAN with default set up.

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 14:56
bighost

Well, I'd love to... but there's no such option in Filesystem backup module. All I can see is: Default (RSH), SSH and FTP. How can I set up an SFTP connection?

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 18:03
ronald
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That would be SSH. Sftp is ssh.. SSH File Transfer Protocol

Tue, 09/01/2009 - 22:08
andreychek

Yeah, I'm not quite sure what would be causing the issue you're seeing, but it's quite possible that trying SSH (or SFTP) would resolve that.

SSH/SFTP tends to be a simpler protocol to work with, as well as being safer!

If that doesn't help though, let us know and we'll do our best to help :-)

-Eric

Thu, 09/10/2009 - 13:19
bbuhlman

I'm having a restore issue after a successful ftp backup. I am using the same username and password that I used to do the backup. These machines are in the same subnet so no FW issue. I am specifying a file from the backup and telling the backup module to restore it to /tmp. The error I get is:

Connection to 10.10.1.254 established. Dump date: Thu Sep 10 09:03:44 2009 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of / on lists.cccoe.org:/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 Label: none 2128317 ./root/webmin-20090819 FTP close failed : initial connection failed : Transfer aborted. Link to file server lost.

close: FTP close failed : initial connection failed : Transfer aborted. Link to file server lost.

Thu, 09/10/2009 - 17:44 (Reply to #7)
andreychek

Howdy,

Does it work if you transfer the backup archive to the Virtualmin server first, and restore the backup locally?

-Eric

Thu, 07/22/2010 - 09:46
lolafrix

I wonder if your file system is causing any issues. Using online storage with NTFS seems to work great for me but FAT was causing issues with my old computer. I could have something to do with that especially since you are saying the connection drops after a certain file size has been reached.

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