On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Matthew Grob <mgrob AT grobfamily DOT org> 
wrote:
>
>
> OK so here's the problem - when i issue the command to start a full backup, 
> nothing happens.  there is nothing in the queue, no log of a failed 
> attempted, nothing.  (there is a log in the server that says a full backup 
> was requested)
>
> -backupPC status seems to report nothing in the queue and no attempts made.  
> It does report that there were no ping responses, but that is expected, since 
> icmp is blocked between these two machines.

Backuppc won't continue if the ping test fails.  Change $Conf{PingCmd}
to something that will succeed like /bin/true.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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