I've been trying for days to get this up and running but i'm currently facing a lot of problems and I'm about to quit. First I try backing up shares using samba xfer method but then I find out that it won't see the file changes when making incremental backups and while I backup files I get then error message onfor some of those files, "BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling MakeFileLink /blah/random" (in logs). Restore with samba is working fine though. However this isn't much different than uploading the files on the server by yourself and because I needed incremental backups I started looking at the next method.
I tried usign rsync. I setup a windows client with the Rsyncd process running at the background. Everything seems to be fine but I still get the same error when backing up the same files and also when I try to restore I get the error Restore failed on hostname (Unable to read 4 bytes). I initially tried backuppc on 2 virtual machines (one debian4 server, one winXP) and I never got the first error (BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling MakeFileLink /blah/random) which leads me to believe that something went wrong with the installation of backuppc in the psysical debian4 server. However the 2nd error persists in both virtual and physical installments making me unable to restore files when using rsync. Can anyone point me ..or write a guide on how to setup backuppc on a Debian 4 machine and make it take backups from a windows machine using rsyncd ? cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
