On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:03 PM, mucr <backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> 
wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I've been traying to configure a cron job to manually do a full backup. But 
> nothing happens other than a record in the log file saying a full backup has 
> been requested:
>
> 2013-08-10 14:10:01 User backuppc requested backup of ClientNameAlias 
> (Real_IP)
>
> The cron job is configure as:
> 15 10 * * * backuppc /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup 
> Real_IPHost ClientNameAlias  backuppc 1
>
> Is there any consideration while configure a cron job usin ClientNameAlias?

I think you should use the name configured in hosts for reference to
jobs and backups - the ClientNameAlias substitution is only used when
the backuppc service tries to connect to the target.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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