Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Ruslan Sivak wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I set up BackupPC earlier this month, and even though manual backups
>>> from the cgi seem to work fine, I am not seeing any nightly backups
>>> taking place.
>>>
>>>
>> How much disk space do you have? A likely reason is being 95% full
>> which is the default limit for starting backups.
>>
>>
>>
> Actually I think I've figured this out.
>
> It was pinging my pc and not backing it up as the ping was taking too
> long. Since we don't have local DNS, the pings were hitting a different
> (non-local) server.
>
> I added my machine to the hosts file and it's working now, but I guess
> this isn't a real solution for machines that use DHCP.
>
> Why is backuppc trying to ping the machine, while it uses netbios to
> find actual machines to do the backup? Shouldn't it resolved the name
> to the ip using netbios first and then ping the ip?
>
> Russ
>
>
I spoke too soon. the backup runs when I run it manually from the
command line, but nothing is being backed up nightly. Is there a cron
job that needs to run to back things up or something?
Russ
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