[BackupPC-users] backing up localhost fails

[Scott W. <sc...@wa...>]

Hi,

I have BackupPC version 3.1 and I'm trying to backup the localhost using 
tar.

TarClientCmd is

/usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C $shareName+ --totals

and /bin/tar --version gives:

tar (GNU tar) 1.15.92

The backup fails with:

2007-12-04 22:09:50 full backup started for directory /data
2007-12-04 22:27:23 Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for 
share /data)
2007-12-04 22:27:28 Backup aborted (No files dumped for share /data)

and the funny thing is that under the backup directory 
pc/hostname/new/f%2fdata all the directories have names which look like 
the contents of the files, so for example I have from ls -l things like:

drwxr-x---    3 backuppc users        4096 Dec  4 22:44 
f59-1">%0d%0a<META\ content\=3D"MSHTML\ 6.00.2900.2180"\ 
name\=3DGENERATOR>%0d%0a<STYLE></

This looks like the contents of an email and one of the first 
directories it should be backing up is my spam database.  This looks 
wrong to me as my other machines which I have backed up (Windows using 
cygwin/rsync) have directories which match the actual directories on the 
clients (e.g. drwxr-x---   48 backuppc users        4096 Dec  4 20:09 
fMy\ Documents).

I had a look through the archives but couldn't find anything to match 
this.  Thanks if anyone can point me into doing some diagnostics.

--
Scott