I had installed BackupPC-XS and rsync-bpc, but I re-installed BackupPC-XS after
the other module changes I made below, and now it is working.
Very strange. Don't know what I could have done wrong, but oh well....
Wouldn't be the first time. LOL
BTW: I really like the more modern look from GitHub.
> On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Steve Palm <n9yty AT n9yty DOT com> wrote:
>
> Okay, I installed from Github to take advantage of recent fixes, and the
> upgrade worked fine. The web interface came up straight away, no problems.
>
> If these problems are BECAUSE I used the GitHub version, please advise and I
> will back it out or wait for resolution. Actually, I did install the
> released 4.0.0 version after this and it seems to make no difference.
>
> I am documenting some things I already fixed here in case others find it
> useful, but in the end I still do not have it working.
>
> However, trying to backup the localhost (previous v3 backup), I received this
> error:
>
> backuppc: getaddrinfo is not a valid Socket macro at
> /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1413
>
> It did a delete pass, but when I tell it to do a full backup I get the above
> error in the log.
>
> The strangest thing is, looking in the config, the host is defined as
> 127.0.0.1, so how can that not be a valid address for
> Socket::getaddrinfo($host); ?
>
> I thought perhaps it was trying to use Socket::GetAddrInfo, which I was able
> to install after having to install these:
>
> File::Path File::Spec Test::More ExtUtils::CBuilder ExtUtils::CChecker
>
> But still the same error.
>
> For context, it is here in BackupPC:Lib, failing on the Socket::getaddrinfo
> line.
>
> sub getHostAddrInfo
> {
> my($bpc, $host) = @_;
> my($err, @addrs) = Socket::getaddrinfo($host);
> return undef if ( $err );
> return (($addrs[0])->{'family'} == Socket::AF_INET6) ? 6 : 4;
> }
>
> Installed `cpan install Socket` and the line went away from the logs, but it
> still is not making any backups. I don't know how to be sure all the modules
> are up-to-date without causing problems. :(
>
> Where to look, every log I look at doesn't show anything, it just logs that
> the backup was requested but it never does anything. :(
>
> Steve
>
>
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