In my experience with W7 and BackupPC, the c: drive does not need to be shared.
Rather than help troubleshoot your error. I'll outline what I do which is 100% successful on the network I administer. 0. I assume you've properly configured BackupPC. 1. Install cygwin-rsync-2.6.8_0 as 'c:\rsyncd' on the client (W7) machine. I usually install the folder as an administrative user, but this may not be necessary. 2. Create a 'backuppc' user on the W7 machine. Make sure user 'backuppc' is password protected. Remember the password for the next step. 3. Alter c:\rsyncd\rsync.secrets so the 'login:password' pair is 'backuppc:the_backuppc_password' 4. Make sure the following options in c:\rsyncd\rsync.conf cDrive module are correct. [cDrive] path = c: comment = Entire Drive auth users = backuppc secrets file = c:/rsync/rsyncd.secrets hosts allow = 192.168.50.101 # Change to the IP of your backuppc server. strict modes = false read only = false list = false 5. Open a command line window with Administrator privileges. At the command line run c:\rsyncd\services.bat. Check to make sure the rsyncd service is running and set to run automatically after reboot. 6. Ensure the rsync.secrets file is read-only in Properties. 7. In Windows Firewall allow the rsync program (c:/rsyncd/rsync.exe) to receive and send traffic. You'll need to create a new firewall rule for both inbound and outbound traffic. 8. Test the configuration at the server with "rsync -av backuppc@host-name::cDrive ." Run the command from a temp directory which you'll delete after the test. Or just try a backup from the BackupPC intranet interface. Once you have BackupPC running on the client PC, you might want to exclude a large number of system files to make your backups much faster and the server storage requirement smaller. Two helpful links re exclusions: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/projs/backuppc_guide.html#7Vista http://www.linux-geex.com/?p=268 Tom -- -----Original Message----- From: higuita [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 17:10 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc and Win7 Hi On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:15:16 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > all other machines on the LAN) and pings work fine. Backuppc fires off > the error "Get fatal error during xfer (no files dumped for share C$). > Any suggestions? Yes... share the c drive... depending on your config, you might not have the c$ share enabled by default (or restricted by the firewall and network settings). good luck higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. -- Hermann Goering, Nazi and war criminal, 1883-1946 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 _______________________________________________ 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/
