On 3/8/2015 5:37 AM, Antonio Sanguigni wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> a little issue. I have an incr backup in progress. BackupPC identify
> the PID but it has no Xfer PID and this is right because pc is not on
> the internet right now. Anyway, BackupPC tells me backup in progress
> in Host Summary.
>
> Why does this happen ? And is it correct or there is some problem that
> I cannot identify ?
>
> Here is last log rows:
>
> 2015-03-07 17:00:00 incr backup started back to 2015-02-26 13:00:02
> (backup #0) for directory XXXX
> 2015-03-07 17:00:03 Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: No route to 
> host)
> 2015-03-07 17:00:08 Backup aborted (inet connect: No route to host)
> 2015-03-07 18:00:00 incr backup started back to 2015-02-26 13:00:02
> (backup #0) for directory XXXX
> 2015-03-07 18:00:03 Got fatal error during xfer (inet connect: No route to 
> host)
> 2015-03-07 18:00:08 Backup aborted (inet connect: No route to host)
> 2015-03-07 19:00:00 incr backup started back to 2015-02-26 13:00:02
> (backup #0) for directory XXXX
>
> Well, after 19:00 I have no message such as No route to host. So
> BackupPC believe it is in progress.

Looks like a problem with your ping command.  Normally BPC uses the ping 
command to determine if a host is available before starting the backup.  
If you have your ping command set to "/bin/true" or something similar, 
then you will get results like the above.  BPC thinks the host is 
available since the "ping" worked and starts the backup.  Since the host 
isn't really there, the backup fails with the connect error.  Then the 
process repeats on the next wakeup cycle.

If there are no further errors after the last "started" message, then 
BPC thinks it is running.  You should either get an xfer pid or an error 
eventually.

-- 
Bowie

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