Re: [BackupPC-users] Questions from a new BackupPC user.

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Matthew Ross writes:

> Here's what I get when I run the commnds specified in your 
> troubleshooting section of the documentation:
> 
> # su backuppc
> backuppc@hades:/root$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f server
> Name server doesn't know about server; trying NetBios
> cmdSystemOrEval: about to system server
> cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output Exec of  server failed
>  
> NetBiosHostIPFind: couldn't find IP address for host server
> host not found
> backuppc@hades:/root$

For some reason it looks like the $Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd}
turns just into just 'server' or ' server', instead of a command
like '/path/to/bin/nmblookup server'.  As you can see, it fails
to exec the command ' server', so it never runs nmblookup.

It looks like your setting of $Conf{NmbLookupPath} is empty or
undefined.  Since the default value of $Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd}
is '$nmbLookupPath $host' that would explain why this command
resolves to ' server'.

Craig