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Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7

2011-06-08 21:15:02
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7
From: Kris Lou <klou AT themusiclink DOT net>
To: owens AT netptc DOT net
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:12:21 -0700
Larry,

Re-reading, its probably best to upgrade Samba first (3.2.5 is not listed as Windows 7 compatible) and then troubleshoot from there.

Kris Lou
klou AT themusiclink DOT net


On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:51 PM, <owens AT netptc DOT net> wrote:

 


----- Original Message -----
From: Kris Lou
Sent: 6/7/2011 11:24:51 PM
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7

Can you access the share via standalone smbclient, since that's how you're choosing to back things up?  As I recall, there are some registry changes necessary for Windows 7 but that might only be for domain membership.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM, <owens AT netptc DOT net> wrote:


Sent: 6/6/2011 10:03:45 PM
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7

Hi,

higuita wrote on 2011-06-05 22:10:28 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7]:

> On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:15:16 -0700, owens AT netptc DOT net wrote:
> > all other machines on the LAN) and pings work fine. Backuppc fires off
> > the error "Get fatal error during xfer (no files dumped for share C$).
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Yes... share the c drive... depending on your config, you might
> not have the c$ share enabled by default (or restricted by the firewall
> and network settings).

shouldn't that lead to a different error? As I read the source, "no files
dumped for share" is produced for a dump where no other error was detected,
yet no files were read - perhaps due to insufficient permissions to access
any files (oh, and it's "*Got* fatal error ...", so we know it's only an
approximation of the actual error message ;-).

More context from the XferLOG would probably help in determining the actual
problem. Are there error messages which BackupPC couldn't interpret leading
up to the "no files dumped ..."? Have you tried running the exact same
command BackupPC is trying from the command line? Can you connect to the
client machine with 'smbclient' (something like
'smbclient //host/C\$ -U backup-user', if 'backup-user' is what BackupPC is
using; see the man page for details) and list the contents of the share?

Regards,
Holger 

Holger and Tom et al
Due the the frequent MS warnings about sharing the C drive I decided to merely create a shared folder called Users.  This folder is accessible from the 3 other machines on the network (XP and Vista) without difficulty.  When I attempt to do a full backup I again get the same error message.  Here is the full error from the Log:

Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\larryshp\\Users -I 10.10.10.101 -U backuppc -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
full backup started for share Users
Xfer PIDs are now 3355,3354
session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0
session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share Users)
Backup aborted (No files dumped for share Users)
Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)

The computer name and IP address are correct but the session setup fails.  Any suggestions of where to go from here?  BTW thanks Tom for the rsync instructions but since I already have 3 machines operation successfully I'd like to try the samba approach before I "throw the baby in the sea".

Larry

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Kris et al

Great catch!  smbclient works great with XP and Vista and fails with the same session setup error as backuppc on Windows 7.  Doing some Googling this appears to be an incompatibility between smbclient and Windows.  There appears to be some disagreement as to whether this is a bug in smbclient or an "overkill" security-wise on Windows 7 (potentially requiring some registry editing).  Before I start experimenting I'm hoping there is someone on this list who has encountered and solved this issue.

Larry


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