InstallDir on my system = /usr/share/backuppc
In /usr/share/backuppc/bin are various files including:
BackupPC_archive  (Note not BackupPC_archiveStart)
BackupPC_archiveHost

The on-line docs at Sourceforge do not correspond with my Ubuntu 8.04-Server 
LTS distribution.

At the command line, using the full path, both can be started.  From the CGI it 
appears that BackupPC_archiveHost is started with the following command:
$Installdir/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost $tarCreatePath $splitpath $parpath $host 
$backupnumber $compression $compext $splitsize $archiveloc $parfile *

Still, it doesn't explain why it it fails to run when scheduled or fails to 
create a log entry, but works when started manually using the button in the CGI 
and creates the log entries.

SamK

> 
> From: "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <nils AT lemonbit DOT com>
> Date: 2008/11/17 Mon AM 09:45:41 GMT
> To: "General list for user discussion,
>       questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Working Well - Except Archiving
> 
> SamK wrote:
> 
> > The on-line documentation at Sourceforge mentions creating an  
> > archive at the command line using BackupPC_archiveStart.  This  
> > method fails as the system cannot find BackupPC_archiveStart.
> 
> The BackupPC_archiveStart binary is probably not in your path. Try  
> calling it using the full path, e.g. /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/ 
> BackupPC_archiveStart on our systems.
> 
> 
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