I just spent the better part of a couple of days trying to figure this out, so I thought I'd write it up in case it can help someone else. As is often the case, it ended up being fairly trivial, but not immediately obvious where the problem was. After adding a new machine (Windows 7, although I don't think it matters), I was getting errors of the following sort:
2010-03-30 17:27:18 full backup started for directory 2010-03-30 17:27:18 Got fatal error during xfer (auth required, but service is open/insecure) 2010-03-30 17:27:23 Backup aborted (auth required, but service is open/insecure) I wasted a lot of time checking the configuration of the remote PC, when the issue was actually on the server. The <host>.pl file that specifies the configuration and what directories are backed up was owned by root, and not by the backuppc user. Because of this, backuppc could not read the configuration or access the username and password for the connection. It's easy to fix with the following command (on Ubuntu, assuming backuppc is the correct user for the backup process, and replacing <host> with the correct hostname for the remote PC). I also suspect that the hostname must be all lowercase, because after I tried that, the errors I became slightly more useful (auth failed on module desktop). $sudo chown backuppc <host>.pl Regards, Rudi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/