DEFAULT_PARTITIONS_TO_BACKUP="1 2" produces an error

[JoergBo]

I tried to use partition based backup, setting this parameters in raspiBackup.conf

DEFAULT_PARTITIONBASED_BACKUP="1"
DEFAULT_PARTITIONS_TO_BACKUP="1 2"

Its a Raspi 3B with Debian stretch with actual updates
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"

When i try to start i get an error

--- RBK0009I: boox-rpi3: raspiBackup.sh V0.6.4 (e93685e) um Sat 29 Sep 08:52:23 CEST 2018 gestartet.
--- RBK0128I: Logdatei ist /media/data/backup/[...]-rsync-backup-20180929-085223/boox-rpi3-backup.log.
--- RBK0116I: Konfigurationsdatei /usr/local/etc/raspiBackup.conf wird benutzt.
??? RBK0093E: Angegebene Partition 1 2 der Option -T existiert nicht.

When i do the same on the commandline -T "1 2" the backup works!
In the debug.log it seems, raspibackup detects the correct partitions, but stops with the error.
Please check, thank you.

boox-rpi3-raspiBackup.log

[framps]

Hello @JoergBo ,

thank you very much for reporting the issue. You are right: If you use the config file to define the partitions to backup raspiBackup fails 😢 . It will work when you define them in the following way:
DEFAULT_PARTITIONS_TO_BACKUP=(1 2)
I will update the doc in the config file and mention to use parentheses to fix this issue.

The other issue you reported I cannot debug because in the log you called raspiBackup
Options: -t rsync -p /media/data/backup -v -a : -o : which fails because of the missing parentheses in the config. So either call raspiBackup again with -T "1 2" or add the parentheses in the config file and provide the log again.

[framps]

Configuration files used by installer were just updated with additional comments and the doc for the option -T was also updated right now on https://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/de/raspibackup#parameter

[JoergBo]

Hi, may be, my desciption was a little confusing. There is only one Bug.
DEFAULT_PARTITIONS_TO_BACKUP="1 2" is not working. Now i tried
DEFAULT_PARTITIONS_TO_BACKUP=(1 2) and got another bad result:

The backup starts and ends without error, but NO files are backed up!
It seems, raspBackup generates an empty rsync diff with DEFAULT_PARTITIONS_TO_BACKUP=(1 2)

--- RBK0009I: boox-rpi3: raspiBackup.sh V0.6.4 (e93685e) um Sat 29 Sep 14:23:34 CEST 2018 gestartet.
--- RBK0128I: Logdatei ist /media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-142334/boox-rpi3-backup.log.
--- RBK0116I: Konfigurationsdatei /usr/local/etc/raspiBackup.conf wird benutzt.
--- RBK0151I: Backuppfad /media/data/backup wird benutzt.
!!! RBK0157W: Keine Services sind zu stoppen.
--- RBK0081I: Backup vom Typ rsync wird in /media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-142334 erstellt.
--- RBK0085I: Backuperstellung vom Typ rsync gestartet. Bitte Geduld.
--- RBK0036I: Partitionslayout wird gesichert.
--- RBK0044I: Backup des Partitionlayouts wird in /media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-142334/boox-rpi3-backup.sfdisk erstellt.
--- RBK0044I: Backup des Partitionlayouts wird in /media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-142334/boox-rpi3-backup.blkid erstellt.
--- RBK0044I: Backup des Partitionlayouts wird in /media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-142334/boox-rpi3-backup.parted erstellt.
--- RBK0044I: Backup des Partitionlayouts wird in /media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-142334/boox-rpi3-backup.fdisk erstellt.
--- RBK0046I: Backup des Masterbootrecords wird in /media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-142334/boox-rpi3-backup.mbr erstellt.
--- RBK0092I: Partition sda1 (43.5MB) wird gesichert ...
--- RBK0133I: Verzeichnis /media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-140445 wird für Hardlinks benutzt.
--- RBK0158I: rsync Backup "/media/data/backup/boox-rpi3/boox-rpi3-rsync-backup-20180929-142334" wird erstellt.
--- RBK0085I: Backuperstellung vom Typ rsync gestartet. Bitte Geduld.
sending incremental file list

sent 4,023 bytes received 15 bytes 8,076.00 bytes/sec
total size is 22,976,924 speedup is 5,690.17
--- RBK0112I: Partition sda1 wurde gesichert.
!!! RBK0156W: Keine Services sind zu starten.
--- RBK0010I: boox-rpi3: raspiBackup.sh V0.6.4 (e93685e) um Sat 29 Sep 14:23:37 CEST 2018 beendet.
--- RBK0017I: Backup erfolgreich beendet.
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---just info, no bugs beyond this line ---------------------------------------------------------------
If i use the commandline as a workaround, with -T "1 2" everything works perfekt! I use this for backup, with enclosed stop and start commands for apache, mysql and so on...
/usr/local/bin/raspiBackup.sh -t rsync -p /media/data/backup -v -T "1 2" -a : -o :
---just info ends :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[framps]

@JoergBo Got it now 😄 .
Looks like I have to spend more time on this issue. I frankly thought it will work with parentheses.

[framps]

@JoergBo I had to change some code and a fix ix available here. Please verify and when you closed the issue I will roll in the fix into the main branch.
Thank you very much for reporting this issue 👍

[JoergBo]

@framps Tested it, DEFAULT_PARTITIONS_TO_BACKUP="1 2" works now. Thank you!

[JoergBo]

Solved.