On 5/17/2011 4:46 PM, Magnus Larsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been using backuppc for ages (more than 3 years) on my home
> network, and it works just lovely,
>
> However, after upgrading my server to latest ubuntu (11.04) the
> localhost backup fails. The error is "no ping response". All the other
> machines work fine, but not the server itself. I have not changed
> anything in the setup. When I manually ping as the user backuppc, that
> is set to execute the backup, there is a ping response. Successful pings
> with "localhost", 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.1.1. But still the backuppc backup
> fails - no ping response.
>
> I did find that backuppc had no rights to rsync in the sudoers file, so
> I added the line:
> backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/rsync
>
> as given in the documentation and identical to what I have on all other
> hosts. But still same error: no ping response.
>
> Any suggestions on how to approach this? Backuppc is version
> 3.2.0-3ubuntu4.
What is the host name (or ClientNameAlias, if set) in the backuppc
config? Can you ping that name?
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