Hi,

> 
> Thanks it looks like it was winexe, for whatever reason if run directly 
> from the shell it would work 100% but as soon as it was run from 
> backuppc it wouldnt exit, I just backrounded winexe now and ran a 
> cleanup in DumpPostCmd too kill the winexe process after the backup was 
> complete and its now working.
> 

for some time now I've been searching for a solution for this problem,
too. 

We found that closing stdin like described here:
http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/10/24/bash-tip-closing-file-descriptors/
helps with winexe in DumpPreUserCmd or DumpPostUserCmd scripts.

Our winexe line now reads:

$WINEXE --interactive=0 -A /etc/backuppc/winpw "//$BOX" 'cmd /c
c:\netinst\backuppc\pre-exec.cmd' <&-

so the script can wait for execution of winexe without backgrounding it.

Best regards,
Falko

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