cpbackup returning tar errors

[NightStorm]

root@server [/]# /scripts/cpbackup --force
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
pkgacct started.
pkgacct version 4.1 - running with uid 0
using time::hires for speedups
Copying Reseller Config...Done
Copying SSL Certificates, CSRS, and Keys...Done
Copying Mail files....Done
Copying frontpage files....Done
Copying proftpd file....Done
Copying www logs.............

Since the last update (the one that also caused the problems with mod_security) I have been receiving this error during the nightly backups. If I was to remove this script, then force a cpanel update, would it automatically replace the script with one that works? I haven't changed the file in any way, so I can only assume that the one it grabbed from the update was messed up somewhere.
Has anyone else experienced this error, and know of a quickie fix for it? I'm wary of messing with this file, and don't want to wreck things more than they are now.

[SubZero]

same here...

tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.
tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options
Try `tar --help' for more information.

I have fixed modsec error via changing its password in the phpmyadmin. you can cat the script tht is giving error and copy paste the new password

[NightStorm]

I fixed the mod_sec problem 15 minutes after it started... but the backup problem is ongoing.

[webignition]

I fixed the mod_sec problem 15 minutes after it started... but the backup problem is ongoing.

Yep, I'm getting this too. Any ideas from anyone would be appreciated.

This started on the 3rd of December after upgrading to 10.8.1-CURRENT_41 from 10.8.1-CURRENT_30-something. CentOS 3.6.

[lloyd_tennison]

I got it on Fedora 4 -so it is an error. They updated the cpbackup script on that day..

[dgbaker]

Edit /scripts/cpbackup and check around line 345, there is the tar command. The format for it was as follows;

cpusystem("tar","cfzp","$target/dirs/$rawdir.tar.gz","$dir");

In the lastest one they are trying to use --exclude=path and it is not structured correctly.

They have listed -

cpusystem('tar',"--exclude='*/proc'",'cfzp',"$target/dirs/$rawdir.tar.gz",$dir);

When it should be

cpusystem('tar','cfzp',"$target/dirs/$rawdir.tar.gz","--exclude='*/proc'",$dir);

They have the exclude in the wrong place. Note that they have also changed from double quotes (") to single quotes (').

To test and see try both of these;

tar --exclude=proc cfzp /test.tar.gz *

tar cfzp /test.tar.gz --exclude=*/proc *

The first one shows the error, the second one works.

[dgbaker]

Bug 3584 has been added to the database
http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3584

[stephem]

Line 344 has

cpusystem('rsync',$rsyncopts,"--exclude='*/proc'",'--delete',"$dir/","$target/dirs/$rawdir");

Is that wrong as well?

[rpmws]

seems like almost a week now I am seeing these across all boxes as well

[stephem]

Made dgbaker's change but the nightly update overwrote it with the bugged version so still got the same errors. I suppose I will have to wait until CPanel correct it themselves.

[SubZero]

Bug 3584 has been added to the database
http://bugzilla.cpanel.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3584

I hate it when they leave bugs like this: unattended....

[kris1351]

Seems they have "fixed" quite a few things lately without notifying of the changes. This is about the 5th thing we have seen in the past 2 weeks that really messed up Cpanel functionality.

[NightStorm]

So I'm curious... they apparently have not yet patched it, as I received the error again last night, instead of the standard email I used to receive prior to the update. Does this mean that my nightly backups are not infact being backed up?
This is something I would like to know, so that I can use a secondary method of keeping a copy of the data on a second drive...

[kris1351]

This is the latest log for Edge. Should hit Current pretty soon I hope.

10.8.1 (build 55) - EDGE Tree Linux i686 Thu Dec 8 21:37:58 2005

Resolved bugzilla id 336 - Updated smartcheck to use later versions of
smartmontools if installed
Resolved bugzilla id 3208 - Change system mail preferences
Resolved bugzilla id 3380 - BoxTrapper not working for domains that begin with
a digit
Resolved bugzilla id 3399 - maildir conversion on moved accounts
Resolved bugzilla id 3427 - Disk quota in cPanel not updating immediately
Resolved bugzilla id 3435 - FreeBSD 6.0 using tgz file extensions instead of
tbz
Resolved bugzilla id 3464 - Exim Configuration Editor generates an invalid
configuration if smtp_banner is set
Resolved bugzilla id 3518 - cpanelsync without bzip2 leaves -cpanesync.bz2
files
Resolved bugzilla id 3532 - Update yum.conf to exclude Exim rpm upgrades
Resolved bugzilla id 3534 - Creation of Addon Domain with upper and lowercase
does not work
Resolved bugzilla id 3584 - cpbackup tar error
Resolved bugzilla id 3587 - Urchin log processesing
Resolved issue where resellers were unable to install new SSL certificates.
Resolved issue where demo accounts' ftp login was re-enabled if the shell was
changed from demoshell.