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Dear All,

I apologise for re-visiting this, but I am having difficulty backing up a WinXP machine over rync.

I am using Backuppc version 3.1.0, and cygwin's rsync on the WinXP box.

When I issue a fuill backup, I get the following message in backuppc

Executing DumpPostUserCmd: /home/backuppc/Bin/NotifyUsers -h **** -u **** < at > **** -m ****** -c 0 -t full -s hr_info
Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed)
Backup aborted (chdir failed)

I have blanked out the email address, host and user for this email. I then went and looked on the WinXP
in the rsync.log file and I get the following message,

2009/05/01 16:39:23 [4024] rsync: chdir /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/f:/Alvina_PET/HR_Info failed

Has anyone else seen this, or can someone point me in the direction of a solution, thanks

Peter




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Hi,

Peter Bloomfield wrote on 2009-05-01 16:56:45 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Rsyncd and WinXP]:
[...] backing up a WinXP machine over rync.

I take it that is actually missing a "d" as well as the "s"?

[...]
Got fatal error during xfer (chdir failed)
Backup aborted (chdir failed)

[...] I then went and looked on the WinXP
in the rsync.log file and I get the following message,

2009/05/01 16:39:23 [4024] rsync: chdir /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/f:/Alvina_PET/HR_Info failed

Has anyone else seen this, or can someone point me in the direction of a
solution, thanks

I take it your rsyncd.conf contains a path specification
"f:/Alvina_PET/HR_Info". Apparently, rsyncd is interpreting
this as a relative path. You probably need to use something
like "/cygdrive/f/Alvina_PET/HR_Info" instead.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Holger

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