[SOLVED]

Hello,

I recognized that the backup of the windows xp client was successfull 
after I made a reboot.
So I guess the missing step when adding a client to backuppc that is 
connected via (Open)VPN to restart the backuppc-server and reload the 
configuration.

So for the archives: How to backup a windows xp client that is connected 
via OpenVPN to your backuppc server:

1) make sure you're VPN is working by pinging the windowsclient from 
your backuppc-server
2) add ip of windows-client to /etc/hosts on backuppc server
3) make sure you can ping the windows-client by using its hostname
4) create a client-config.pl for the new client, make sure rsync, ssh or 
tar (whatever you choose is working)
5) IMPORTANT: reload the configuration by restarting the 
backuppc-server: sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc restart


- Kurt

Adam Goryachev wrote:
 > To see what backuppc is doing, and why it doesn't work, login to your
 > backuppc server as the user backuppc.
 > Run "/usr/share/backuppc/bin/Backuppc_dump -v laptopclient" and send
 > the output to the list if you can't work out what is wrong.


> Kurt Tunkko wrote:
>> I have maybe the same problem when trying to backup a windows xp laptop 
>> that is connected via VPN to the backuppc-server.
 >>[...]



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