David,
Being a "mobile warrior," I believe
you would be best fitted with using rsync (cwRsync for
Windows) instead of smb. You
also need to keep in mind that your system will need to
transfer all files across the pipe to check their checksum.
If you are connected via wireless when you are home, I would
not suggest it, unless your drive is practically unused.
With that said, if you still would
prefer to use smb, I would suggest doing some basic
troubleshooting from another PC (if possible) by simply
connecting to the \\laptop1 device (you will
want to connect to the c$ share). If you can connect
successfully or if you don't have another device to test, I
would suggest running the following command on your linux box:
smbclient -L ComputerName -U
Administrator*
If the system comes back with your
open network shares, then good. If it does not, then
something is wrong and you'll need to look into the error
message it gives back. If it does work, you can try one last
thing, actually mounting the drive to your server to ensure
that works.
1. Create a folder in /mnt using
mkdir /mnt/test
2. Run this command: mount -t cifs
//IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o
username=Administrator*
3. If that does not work, exchange
cifs for smbfs. mount -t cifs
//IP.AddressOrHostName.Of.Computer/c$ /mnt/test/ -o
username=Administrator*
You should be able to cd to
/mnt/test and do a ls -aL to see all the data in the root of
your C: on your laptop. If that works, it *should* work
assuming your credentials are correct in BackupPC's configs.
P.S. Once you test mounting, you'll
probably want to unmount with umount /mnt/test
* [Or whatever username you want to
use to connect]
~Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] One more time
On 2/7/2011 3:49 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 12:39 -0500, Ryan Blake wrote:
However, if that's not an option for whatever reason, the only other option
would be to ensure that your dhcpd service is properly connected/integrated
with bind [named] (assuming you are using these).
That's what I do at my office. However, I use dnsmasq at home, which
provides both DNS and DHCP. It automatically integrates them, so when
you supply your hostname with the DHCP request (as most clients do), it
gets added to the local DNS domain automatically.
Also, consider Bonjour/Avahi. Then you can use "hostname.local" as your
name/alias and it will work. Ubuntu and Macs will support this out of
the box. On Windows it's easy to install.
Regards,
Tyler
All,
I have now gotten to the point whereby the backup is at least
starting. It is also stopping very quickly with the following
errors:
full backup started for share \\laptop1
Xfer PIDs are now 28877,28876
Exec failed for
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share \\laptop1)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share \\laptop1)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)
I suspect that I don't have some of the smb parameters setup
correctly. I have done the following:
XferMethod = smb
SmbShareName = \\laptop1 (have also
tried C$)
SmbShareUserName and SmbSharePasswd have both been set.
BackupFilesOnly = \users\dwilliams
How can I troubleshoot this issue further? Are there any
command line commands that I can use to ensure I can connect to
laptop1 via smb? I have Windows7 64-bit on the laptop.
Any additional help will be much appreciated.
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