Hi,

I need some help with BackupPC's execution of a cmd script on a Windows 
machine,
from a Linux machine. I cannot get the command to execute on the remote
(client) machine under BackupPC.

I know it takes a lot of information to understand what is going on at a
random place in the world, so I will try to be succinct yet comprehensive. If 
any
further information is needed please let me know.

1) I have BackupPC running on Linux.

2) I am using the rsyncd method for file transfer.

3) I have the rsyncd transfer method working just fine on 10 Linux clients.

4) I have rsyncd, running under cygwin, working fine on a single windows 7
   client.

5) I've written a short cmd script to dump the registry, and create a shadow
   copy of the c: drive on the win7 client. This script runs fine on the win7
   machine locally.

6) I have winexe running on the Linux machine. I can execute the regShadow cmd
   script on the win7 machine from the Linux machine using winexe.

7) The problem is that I cannot execute the regShadow cmd script on the win 7
    machine using winexe on the Linux machine from BackupPC.

8) The error I am getting back in the log file is(I touched up the formatting
to fit this email):

2011-02-09 07:17:47 
  Output from DumpPreUserCmd: Exec of "winexe --reinstall -W WORKGROUP -U
  backuppc%<password> //hsback-1 
   'cmd /C c:/Users/backuppc/shadowDrv'" failed  

8.5) The client specific BackupPC conf entries are:

     $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['cshadow'];
     $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '"winexe --interactive=0 -W WORKGROUP -U
         backuppc%<password> //$client \'cmd /C 
c:/Users/backuppc/shadowDrv\'"';

  NOTE: I also tried it with no interactive switch.

9) I've tried a number of different quoting combination. Nothing worked. I
   tired to create a simple shell script, and just execute it, still didn't
   work. Shell script (preCmd) here.

          winexe -W WORKGROUP -U backuppc%Winston54 //hsback-1 'cmd /C
          c:/Users/backuppc/shadowDrv'

10) Here is the cmd script that runs on the win 7 machine:

    :: Dump the registry.
    reg export HKLM hklm.reg /y

    reg export HKCU hkcu.reg /y
    reg export HKCR hkcr.reg /y
    reg export HKU  hku.reg /y                                                  
                                          
    reg export HKCC hkcc.reg /y                                                 
                                          

    :: Delete the B: pseudo drive.                                              
                                          
    dosdev -r -d b:                                                             
                                          

    :: Load the ID from the last shadow copy made from this script.             
                                          
    call vss-vars                                                               
                                          

    :: Delete the last shadow copy.
    vshadow -ds=%SHADOW_ID_1%                                                   
                                          

    :: Create a persistent shadow copy of the C drive.                          
                                          
    :: Put the shadow copy id into the vss-vars.cmd file.                       
                                          
    vshadow -p -script=vss-vars.cmd c:

    :: Load the ID into this cmd file's attribute space.
    call vss-vars

    :: Map the new shadow copy to the B: drive.
    vshadow -el=%SHADOW_ID_1%,b:

11) I have ssh working with no password required in either direction between
the win 7 client and the Linux server. All the keys are set up.

Any help would be really appreciated.

thanks

Jeffrey

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