Steve Redmond wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've run in to a bit of a strange issue. We have a large number of
> backups running on backuppc and up until recently they have all been
> working fine. Now I see everything as Idle with aging "last backups"
>
> Now, when I attempt to kick backups off manually I get the usual:
>
>   "Reply from server was: ok: requested backup of hostname" message
>
> No errors appear in the log other than:
>
>   2009-06-09 15:54:17 User backuppc requested backup of hostname (hostname)
>
>
>
> Going through some debugging steps, I ran this:-
>
> backuppc@backupbox:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f hostname
> Exiting because backups are disabled with $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 2
> nothing to do
>
>
> This is however incorrect, as the config file clearly says:-
>
> $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '0';
>   

I assume this means the main config file.  There are also per-host 
config files that will override the main one.  Other alternatives are 
you aren't looking at the same config file that BackupPC is, or 
$Conf{BackupsDisable} is set twice in the main config file.

>
> Any pointers on further steps for diagnosing this problem?
>
> Regards,
> - Steve

Chris

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