On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:01 PM, xpac <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> 
wrote:
> So this is a small environment, as such there is no internal DNS server.  So, 
> what I did for the previous clients and the backuppc server was add static 
> entries into the /etc/hosts files on each machine.  This seems to work as 
> both the server and client can ping each other via IP address and hostname.
>

In that case you either have a typo in the name in the backuppc
config, or when backuppc expands the configured pingPath and PingCmd
it is doing something different than what you are testing.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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