On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Mark Potter <
potter2769 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Situation: We use BackupPC to backup all the boxes at this satellite office.
> Yesterday morning the main office lost network connectivity, thus we lost
> our Domain server and primary/local DNS server. While the main office was
> down, we were not able to run any backups (authentication
> issues), understandable. During this down time we changed our DHCP server
> to use a different secondary DNS server, during this the DHCP server was
> reset and thus many of our boxes got new IPs. The main office came back up
> around noon.
>
> Today I have two errors in the "Failures that need attention" list, however:
> * Under "Host" it gives an IP address instead of the host name If one
> clicks on this, one is taken to a page stating "Error: Unknown host or user
> ###.###.###.###".
> * Under "Last Try" it gives the top of the current hour, thus it
> is apparently retrying these host IPs every cycle.
>
> Looking at the log file for yesterday I can see a bunch of lines
> reading "###.###.###.###: DHCP ###.###.###.### host" for these and for other
> hosts, where the two IP address given are the same. I do not recall seeing
> these lines in the log file before.
>
> Looking at the Host Summary page, all the hosts report as being fine,
> including the two hosts which HAD the IPs given on the Status page.
>
> Therefore, two points:
>
> Point 1: Reporting bug and/or feature request: Ideally BackupPC should not
> have gotten into this state, but since this is such a contrived case I can
> see just ignoring it. However there should be some UI improvements to deal
> which such discongruent data. e.g. A way to clear IP addresses from the
> queue of hosts retrying.
>
> Point 2: How can I manually clear these errors, or will they self clear
> after another day or so?
