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Hi All,

I have BackupPC set up on a Linux server and am trying to backup
WindowsXP clients. The shares are all named "Cee" and I want to backup
the /My Documents directories on each machine.

Relevant sections of backuppc/conf/config.pl:

$Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [12];
$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'Cee';
$Conf{BlackoutHourBegin} = 16.5;
$Conf{BlackoutHourEnd} = 8.5;
$Conf{BlackoutWeekDays} = [0, 7];
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';

The hosts file:
host dhcp user moreUsers # <--- do not edit this line
sue 0 sue # Static IP in /etc/hosts

And in backuppc/pc/client/config.pl:

$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'Cee';
# The "C" drive
$Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'sue';
$Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'backuppc';
$Conf{TarShareName} = '/My Documents';
# At C:\My Documents - not sure if this is needed or not
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/My Documents';
# At C:\My Documents

And from the LOG file:
2004/6/30 12:00:01 full backup started for share Cee
2004/6/30 12:00:04 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for
share Cee)
2004/6/30 12:00:14 Dump aborted (No files dumped for share Cee)

I know this must be a configuration problem. Can someone please point me
in the right direction?

ALSO, how can I do one time tests, i.e. run the backups manually? If I
run /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC from the command line, it still
looks to the config.pl file to kick off a backup based on the
$Conf{WakeupSchedule} variable. Do I have to set this to a near time and
then run BackupPC?

Thanks- Dan



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Dan Weisenstein said:
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And in backuppc/pc/client/config.pl:

I assume you mean backuppc/pc/sue/config.pl, because that's what it will
look for with a client named 'sue'.

Have you checked out the web interface lately? http://127.0.0.1/backuppc/
with a browser on the Linux machine, otherwise http://<ip>/backuppc/
(where ip is the ip address of the server).

Manually, you can do something like

/usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -i sue #incremental
/usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -f sue #full

There are a lot of tools in /usr/local/backuppc/bin (or rather,
/usr/share/backuppc/bin on Debian), and each one seems to have
documentation at the top of the file. So to see documentation for
BackupPC_dump, do

less /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump

run /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC from the command line, it still

It should. That's the server, I think.


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