BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre connection failures

2012-01-31 11:14:32
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre connection failures
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:13:25 -0600
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:59 AM, haruspex <princeps.candidus AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> “rsync target::” works just fine:
> vm-backuppc# /usr/local/bin/rsync 192.168.0.118::
> docs            Documents and Settings
> dDrive          Entire D Drive
>
> The logs don't provide anything more specific than “Backup failed on
> <HostName> (inet connect: Operation timed out)”. I guess the problem
> is somewhere with how BackupPC handles the sockets or nearby, judging
> by results of “grep -r "inet connect" *”...

Are you using the IP address in the backuppc config, or does it have
to do name resolution?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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