> Steve wrote:
>
>> Well, I changed to use the correct full path for sudo and now I get  
>> this error:
>>
>> Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified  
>> 2008-07-29
>> 12:25:04
>>
>> Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals -- 
>> newer=2008-07-27\
>> 17:56:09 .
>> incr backup started back to 2008-07-27 17:56:09 (backup #1) for  
>> directory /
>> Xfer PIDs are now 3657,3656
>> sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
>> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0  
>> sizeExistComp, 0
>> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
>> Got fatal error during xfer (sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to
>> run  
>> sudo)
>> Backup aborted (sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo)  
>
> Run 'visudo' on the client and comment out 'requiretty'.
> 
> Nils Breunese.

Excellent! I have a full backup running now. Once I've verified that I
can recover a file, the next task is to try to back up a Windows laptop
via smb.

Thanks Nils and Ryan.

Steve.

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