---- Adam Goryachev <adam AT websitemanagers.com DOT au> wrote: 
> Set the full path to sudo eg /bin/sudo
> 
> Maybe that will help.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam  

Thanls for the suggestion but I still get the same error.

Stev e.

> Steve Blackwell wrote:  
> > I just installed BackupPC and I started by attempting to backup
> > just my local machine which is also the BackupPC server. 
> >
> > Since this is a local machine I don't need ssh so I set my
> > TarClientCmd to "$tarPath -c -v -f - -C $shareName+ --totals". This
> > worked OK but some directories were not backed up because the user,
> > backuppc, doesn't have root privileges. Next I set up sudo to allow
> > backuppc to run tar as root. I su'd to backuppc to test and it
> > worked fine. My new TarClientCmd is "sudo $tarPath -c -v -f - -C
> > $shareName+ --totals".
> >
> > The problem is that when backuppc runs a backup at the schedules
> > time, I get this error:
> >  
> > Exec failed for sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals
> > --newer=2008-07-27\ 17:56:09 . 
> > tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0
> > sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal 
> > Got fatal error during xfer (Exec failed for sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f
> > - -C / --totals --newer=2008-07-27\ 17:56:09 .) 
> > Backup aborted (Exec failed for id; sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f
> > - -C / --totals --newer=2008-07-27\ 17:56:09 .)
> >
> > Any suggestions.

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