We use BackupPC on Ubuntu Hardy to backup a number of Windows XP hosts 
using smb.  It has worked faultlessly for at last 2 years; until a week 
ago when the hosts stopped being backed up. Now none except localhost 
that uses the tar transfer method work.

When A backup runs it seems to stall very soon (a few seconds) after it 
starts. Some files are copied to the temporary directory at 
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/[hostname]/new/   but the pid's show no CPU 
activity after this. The backup seems to stop on a random file each 
time, and using windows "Computer Management" on the host I can see that 
the server has that one file open. After this BackupPC will just sit 
there doing nothing until the ClientTimeout is exceeded (20 hours). Then 
the backup exits with an error reported in the XferLOG "exiting after 
signal ALRM".

I have tried running the smbclient command manually like this:

sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\[hostName]\\wk -U [userName] -N 
-d 10 -c tarmode\ full -Tc backup.tar

This works so I assume its not the smb transport. But after that I am 
stuck. Any suggestions?

Manu.

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