Re: [BackupPC-users] Can not start backup when client was a long time away

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Nicolas Göddel
 wrote:
>
> My laptop is only online in my LAN a few hours a week. Every time I connect
> it to my LAN I try to manually start an incremental backup using the
> BackupPC's webinterface. Unfortunality it never works directly except I wait
> for hours.

The thing most likely to fix itself over time would be name resolution
for a DHCP client.  Do you know how the name is registered after the
machine is connected?  And then how it propagates to your DNS service?

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Can not start backup when client was a long time away

[Kris Lou]

If your pings are successful, then check your blackout hours.


Kris Lou
k...@themusiclink.net

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Nicolas Göddel <
mailingli...@freakscorner.de> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have installed BackupPC 3.3.1 on my small Ubuntu machine which consists
> of two RAIDs. One for data, one for the backup of the important stuff and
> for my Ubuntu laptop.
>
> My laptop is only online in my LAN a few hours a week. Every time I
> connect it to my LAN I try to manually start an incremental backup using
> the BackupPC's webinterface. Unfortunality it never works directly except I
> wait for hours. And then it runs without problems. I guess it has something
> to do with theses pings but I thought I had deactivated them correctly.
> Maybe not. But there are also no new log files with some error messages or
> something like that. I have no clue why it won't start the backup.
>
> Strangely enough it works without problems if I log into the terminal of
> my server and call
>
> sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v 
>
> Do you have any ideas what I could have done wrong? Do you need some
> configuration? Where do I find them in a format you prefer?
>
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