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Re: [BackupPC-users] newbie: backupPC installed ok, but trouble with 1st backup

2012-11-23 06:05:31
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] newbie: backupPC installed ok, but trouble with 1st backup
From: Paulo Almeida <palmeida AT igc.gulbenkian DOT pt>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:02:25 +0000
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:49:06PM +1100, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> On 23/11/12 15:39, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > 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.
> Or allow ICMP ping requests.... Or find another simple command that will
> attempt a connection on port 22 (SSH), and return it's result similar to
> what ping does. 

I use httping for a web server that doesn't allow ping. PingCmd is:

/usr/bin/httping -c 1 $host

> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
> 
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