Jack M. Nilles wrote:

> I'm moving BackupPC to a new machine, running SUSE 11.2. After
> installation I get nothing but the dreaded pink background and:
> 'backup failed (Unable to read 4 bytes)'
> messages for each host being backed up. Yet, if I start a backup via:
> 
> sudo -u backuppc /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f <host>
> 
> I do indeed get the backup, along with verbose output, provided I keep
> tabs on each backup section, since a password is required at each section.
> 
> What little detail am I missing here?

To tell us someting about your configuration
 - connection to client (smb-share, ssh, rsync, ... )
 - xfermethod (smb, rsync, rsyncd, ... )
 - OS of client

> I never had this problem with the 
> old machine running SUSE 11.1.

First of all -  
> 
> jackn

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