Thank you for your reply

Adjust the command line to work with FreeBSD not sure how to go about this? I 
presume editing the config.pl script any hints? I checked that /usr/bin/tar 
exits and wounder why would the FreeBSD package maintainers not include a 
working configuration file, or include gnu tar as a dependency if it is 
required to work.  Don't get me wrong i love BSD, but why do they make 
everything so difficult for us.  I am sure it is just me as backuppc is in the 
ports so most must have it working right? 

Does anyone have backuppc working on FreeBSD with tar? maybe i should forget 
tar and move on to rsync or something?  This is just the localhost wondering 
how difficult it will be to backup remote machines.  

Please help or at least let me know if anyone has Backppc working on FreeBSD

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From: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users 
AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 9:21:36 AM
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] FreeBSD port Broken?

> Really having alot of problems getting PC backup to work with FreeBSD 8.1
> have set things up on a ubuntu machine much easier
>
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root localhost env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/tar
> -c -v -f - -C /etc --totals --exclude=./tmp --exclude=./var/lib/backuppc
> --exclude=./usr/local/backups/bacula --exclude=./proc .
> full backup started for directory /etc
> Xfer PIDs are now 42639,42638
> Tar exited with error 65280 () status
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0
> filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /etc)
> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /etc)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the
> prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

Ubuntu uses a Linux kernel and GNU tools (like tar.)
FreeBSD uses its own kernel and tools, though GNU tools can be installed.

My point is that you can either adjust the command line to use FreeBSD tar
properly, or you can install and use gnu tar.  Using FreeBSD's tar and
GNU's command line doesn't appear to be working out for you.

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