I'd suspect permissions - are the new files getting correct permissions for the account that backuppc is using?
James Wells Systems Administrator t: +44 (0) 1904 780030 w: www.webcertain.com WebCertain Group Limited - Company No. 06721395 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Kyle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 July 2010 14:14 To: backuppc-users Subject: [BackupPC-users] SMB limitations? Hello group, I'm running into problems of incomplete backups for my SOHO LAN, which has four boxes running Xubuntu 8.04.4 and five VMs on one of them that run either WinXP Pro or Win2K Pro. The main problem is that some of the critical directories on the VMs (such as "Program Files" and the Windows and system directories with all the configuration information) don't transfer their files to the backup server (which is, of course, on one of the Linux boxes). I'm sure that it's because the versions of Samba that I run, which are the latest in Ubuntu's repositories, are denied access to "system" files in Windows machines, leaving me with empty directories in the backup. This leaves the question: How can I obtain full backups of these VMs? A possibly related problem is that sometimes new files that have been added to a machine are not found by a subsequent incremental backup. For instance, last night I added some 50 photo images to a directory in one of the VMs, and when done, manually ran an incremental backup of that system for safekeeping. Less than a dozen of the files were transferred! This omission also seems to happen at random for the non-VM systems also. I'm quite new to backuppc and may well have mixed up my configurations, so if it's something I've misconfigured that would be nice to know. The full set of *.pl files is a bit large to post on the list but I'll be happy to provide any applicable excerpts from them on request. Thanks for all advice! -- Jim Kyle mailto:[email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
