Backup windows share with rsbackup?

[Richard Kettlewell]

On 2018-01-05 17:24, Samuel Wolf wrote:
>     > My pre-script:
>     > #/bin/bash
>     > DESTHOST=windowsclient
>     > mount -t cifs //${DESTHOST}/DATA$ /mnt/${DESTHOST} -o
>     > username=rsbackup,password=xxx,domain=${DESTHOST}
>     > IS_MOUNTED=`mount | grep ${DESTHOST}`
>     > if [ "x$IS_MOUNTED" = x ] ; then
>     >                 echo "${DESTHOST} not mounted."
>     >                 exit 1
>     > fi
>     > exit 0
>     >
>     > Now I add a host in rsbackup:
>     >
>     > host windowsclient
>     >   hostname localhost
>     >   volume data /mnt/windowsclient
>     >     pre-backup-hook /etc/rsbackup/scripts/pre-backup-windowsclient.sh
>     >
>     > Issue now, rsbackup thinks with "localhost" the client is every time
>     > online, but this is not the case.
>     > In the worst case rsbackup copy an empty folder from /mnt/windowsclient.
> 
>     What is supposed to happen is that when the pre-backup-hook fails,
>     rsbackup does not backup that volume. See the check on rc in
>     https://github.com/ewxrjk/rsbackup/blob/master/src/MakeBackup.cc#L301 <https://github.com/ewxrjk/rsbackup/blob/master/src/MakeBackup.cc#L301>
>     for instance. So if the issue persists with the current version, check
>     what exit status your script produces when the mount operation fails.
> 
> 
> This work as expected, unfortunately my cron job send me now hourly a mail:
> /etc/cron.hourly/rsbackup:
> WARNING: backup of tester:daten to hddbackupserver: preBackup: exited
> with status 1
> ping: tester: Name or service not known
> umount: /mnt/tester: not mounted

'tester' doesn't appear in the quoted configuration, so I think this
must be from other host.

ttfn/rjk