Steve writes:

> 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 .

You have to use a full path for sudo.  BackupPC doesn't use a shell
to execute commands (to reduce potential security holes), so you
need a full path to the executable.

Craig

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