I managed to resolve the problem, but I don't understand the solution:
In the hosts file, I deselected "dhcp", even though the host is assigned
an address by my router (although I did give the host a permanent
192.168.* address in the router).
The reason I tried this is I perl-debugged the BackupPC script into the
method, QueueOnePC, and because $Hosts->{$host}{dhcp} is non-zero, the
backup request was not being queued (line 1885).
??
On 2020-06-17 9:36 a.m., Tim Evans wrote:
On 6/17/20 12:28 PM, Norman Goldstein wrote:
Sorry for possible re-posting -- am having trouble with this mailing
list.
Rats, previous email sent to "users-owner" by mistake.
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Am running BPC 4.3.2 on fedora 32 x86-64. I am able to run /ping/
from the command line as backuppc and as root (and as myself), and
can successfully do backups from the command line using
BackupPC_dump, but the GUI interface always puts a backup request to
be idle, and shows ping requests always failing (which, I assume, is
what puts the backup request to be idle).
My file system is not near 95% full, and I have full privilege in the
GUI to edit all the Server and pc-specific config files. There are a
fair number of posts on the net re "ping" issues with BPC, but I
haven't been able to resolve this on my machine. When making a
manual backup request from the GUI, the only relevant log entry is in
the Server LOG file:
2020-06-12 11:07:43 User backuppc requested backup ofmelodic
<http://localhost/backuppc?host=melodic> (melodic
<http://localhost/backuppc?host=melodic>)
Make sure your full path to the ping executable is correct in the setup.
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