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Hi

I have BackupPC running on our Linux (Mandrake 10) server, backing up seven
Windows hosts (1 WIn98, 4 Win2KPro and 2 WinXP Pro) to a Ext3 filesystem
(actually, it's a Lacie Porsche 160G external drive attached to the Linux
box through USB 2.0).

Three problems:

I keep getting "Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000
milliseconds " from one of the Win2K machines - only from this one PC.

BackupPC is not backing up files in certain directories of the hosts.
Especially in Documents and Settings directories. It's navigating the
directory tree ok but says The directory c/Documents and Settings/xxx/yyy is
empty '. Is this a WIndows security issue?

Directories are being backed up that Config.pl should be excluding (e.g.
/Program Files)

Config.pl and hosts files are attached.

I've searched the list archive to no avail. Any help gratefully received.

Andy Wright
Carino Communications
t: +44 (0)1628 526005
m: +44 7770 904037
andy < at > carino.co.uk
www.carino.co.uk

"Andrew Wright" writes:

I have BackupPC running on our Linux (Mandrake 10) server, backing up seven
Windows hosts (1 WIn98, 4 Win2KPro and 2 WinXP Pro) to a Ext3 filesystem
(actually, it's a Lacie Porsche 160G external drive attached to the Linux
box through USB 2.0).

Three problems:

I keep getting "Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000
milliseconds " from one of the Win2K machines - only from this one PC.

This is a hardcoded timeout in samba. You can change the timeout
and rebuild samba if you want. Tim Demarest reported this:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/142

BackupPC is not backing up files in certain directories of the hosts.
Especially in Documents and Settings directories. It's navigating the
directory tree ok but says The directory c/Documents and Settings/xxx/yyy is
empty '. Is this a WIndows security issue?

Yes, this is likely a permissions problem. You can run smbclient
manually and browse around to see which files you can access.

Directories are being backed up that Config.pl should be excluding (e.g.
/Program Files)

You have:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/"Program Files"'];

You should have

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/Program Files/*'];

Craig


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