[BackupPC-users] Backup Failed - Server is a Dlink DNS-323

[naigy <bac...@ba...>]

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Hi All,

I recently purchased a Dlink DNS-323 which is a network storage device and have installed Backuppc on it as I had seen it should work on the guide listed below
http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:backuppc

I have installed it pretty much as it is in the guide but instead of using rsync I am wanting to use SMB. I realise the benefits of RSYNC and I may convert to that later but for the moment at least do not want to have to install something on all my PC's, file server etc.

On the DNS-323 it does not have the nmblookup executable however I can get it to see my PCs or so it seems as I am getting successful pings. The way I have done this is my listing my PC's in the /etc/hosts file.

When I attempt to backup a share from any of my PC's which run a variety of Windows XP, Vista and a file server running Debian Etch (Linksys Nslu2) it says backup in progress for a couple of seconds and then gives the following error


> This PC is used by root. 
> Last status is state "idle" (backup failed) as of 6/26 21:02. 
> Last error is "No files dumped for share shared". 
> Pings to linksys have succeeded 1 consecutive times. 


or in further detail the log is as follows

> Contents of file /ffp/backuppcdata/pc/linksys/XferLOG.bad, modified 2008-06-26 21:02:13 
> 
> Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\linksys\\shared -U craig -E -N -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
> full backup started for share shared
> Xfer PIDs are now 1737,1736
> tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal
> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share shared)
> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share shared)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0)






Any advice on how to locate the possible causes for this error would be appreciated. Thanks. I have searched google and the forums but can't find much which seems to relate to my problem or using smb shares.

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