Hi cantthinkofanicknamem,

cantthinkofanickname wrote:
> I've gone through all the How-tos and googled but I cannot get backup PC to 
> successfully run. I am using the smb method and trying to setup a test method 
> from my laptop I use to configure the server (8.10). I have removed the "-N" 
> flag from the backuppc config. file SmbClientFullCmd, etc. of the Smb 
> paths/commands section as I noted this was a Ubuntu bug on the web somewhere. 
> The result log I get is:
> 
> 2008-12-18 14:12:06 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share 
> adminDocuments)
> 2008-12-18 14:12:44 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share adminDocuments)
> 
> But that seems pretty unuseful!
> 
> I can ping my laptop with it's smb name so I'm pretty sure everything is in 
> place. And I have added the user to the XP backup group.

Try using rsyncd/cygwin instead of smb for Windows machines. See 
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html for a guide.

Cody

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