Paul Mantz wrote:

> I'm trying to back up my home directory to my local machine, and I am
> trying to diagnose this error.  I want to back up via rsync and have
> set $Conf{XferMethod} appropriately, but for some reason my
> installation keeps trying to back up via smb.  has anyone else
> witnessed this behavior?  My initial suspicion was that
> /pc/localhost/config.pl was not readable and was not overwriting the
> default method, but I have checked the file permissions and that does
> not seem to be the case.  Does anyone else have an idea?

Did you set this up through the GUI editor? 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#configuration_and_host_editor

I think that that file might need to be called /etc/BackupPC/pc/ 
<hostname>.pl

Nils Breunese.

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