> On 21/05/12 07:25, Michael Stowe wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm, I'm not sure why it wouldn't have created the rsyncd.secrets file,
>> but I'll see what's wrong with it. I'll also add some more explanation
>> to
>> the installer, since it's possible to just skip and create the secrets
>> file manually.
>>
>> I'll also bundle your suggested changes for an update, thank you!
>>
> No problem, I hope it helps.
>
> One question, after my successful install and first backup last week,
> backuppc hasn't been able to do a second successful backup (it just
> eventually gets an ALARM and fails).
>
> It seems to be hanging at the preusercmd script:
>  7417 ?        S      9:45 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC
> -d
>  7423 ?        S     66:17  \_ /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_trashClean
> 17281 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump hostname
> 17290 ?        S      0:00      \_ /bin/bash
> /etc/backuppc/scripts/preusercmd.sh hostname
> 17291 ?        S      0:56          \_ /usr/bin/winexe --interactive=0
> -U Administrator -W DOMAIN --password=mypass //hostname cmd /c
> c:\backuppc\pre-exec.cmd
>
>>>From the backuppc badxferlog:
>
> Executing DumpPreUserCmd: /etc/backuppc/scripts/preusercmd.sh hostname
> Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> exiting after signal ALRM
>
> Possibly during my testing and starting/stopping I've messed something
> up, is there a way to "reset" the state on the windows client? ie, to
> delete any shadow volumes, kill any rsyncd process, etc?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
> --
> Adam Goryachev
> Website Managers
> www.websitemanagers.com.au

Yes -- a reboot will do it (of course) but so will placing a file called
"wake.up" in the backuppc client directory.

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