On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Mirco Piccin <pictux AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>> Would you please post the host.pl script from /etc/BackupPC for me
>> please, or email it to me privately?  I'd like to have a look at the
>> syntax.
>
> Here you are the .pl host file for this ftp client (i have renamed
> host, user & passwd) :
>
> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'ftp.xxxxx.it';
> $Conf{FtpPasswd} = 'xxxxpasswd';
> $Conf{FtpUserName} = 'xxxxuser';
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'ftp';
> $Conf{PingMaxMsec} = '70';
> $Conf{XferLogLevel} = '1';
>
> Nothing else.
> I've tryied also to set
> $Conf{ClientNameAlias}
> with numerical IP (as Holger has suggested).
> I've set 70 as $Conf{PingMaxMsec} because of the rtt avg that is about 40 ms.
>
> The config.pl BackupPC config file, in the new FTP section, has
> standard values (i mean: as released).
>
> Hope this helps (me)
> Regards
> M

Hello Mirco,

The values in your config.pl script appear to be correct.  The
"Invalid argument" error is a protocol-level error.  I'll need some
more information to figure out what's going on.

What ftp server are you running?  Have you made any changes to your
server configuration lately?  Can you confirm that you can access the
server with a different FTP client?  What do the log files for your
FTP server look like?


Thanks,

-- 
Paul Mantz
http://www.mcpantz.org
BackupPC - Network Backup with De-Duplication http://www.backuppc.com
Zmanda - Open source backup and recovery http://www.zmanda.com/

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