Oz Dror wrote:
> Thanks for responding.
> 
> I have done all the correction that you undigested. I am still havening 
> the auth issue.
> When I run the backup in a command line
> I noticed these lines:
> 
> Negotiated protocol version 28
> Got response: 73c7ac91a97cd967d94504b9a6347037
> Auth: got challenge: Mkx8AVu0NSVA9mANktJ9Tg, reply:  c8eskal82WfZRQS5pjRwNw
> Error connecting to module home at 192.168.0.97:873: auth failed on 
> module home
> 
> what does that mean? Which user failed Authorization.?  My user account 
> on the vista machine or backuppc user

This is the user that is defined in your rsyncd.secrets file. It 
shouldn't require any other users. I would first check rsyncd.secrets 
and make sure you're passing the right password. You set up

RsyncdUserName -> backuppc
RsyncdPasswd -> samepasswordasinrsyncd.secrets

in the Xfer settings of backuppc, right?

> does the backuppc needs to be an administrator user of the vista machine
> In my current setup it is not even a user of the vista machine.

Rsyncd should be running as the SYSTEM user, so you won't need a 
backuppc user on the Vista machine unless you want to be able to ssh 
into it or the like.

Are you running something like below to test?
rsync -a [email protected]::home /var/lib/backuppc/testing/ -v

If you're looking for a step-by-step guide that works on Vista, check 
out my site:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html

Cody


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