8:59am, Toni Van Remortel wrote: > Hi all, > > As most of my systems in the backup are not responding to 'ping', I've > set the $PingCmd to /bin/true (as documented). > The problem now is, that when a system is down, BackupPC still gets > successful ping's and tries to backup the system. After a while, the > blackout period is reached, and backup attempts stop (because of > successful ping's). But I want the system to be in the backup when the > system is up again (mostly I fix the issue in the morning, so my current > solution is to start a manual backup). > > Is there another option for the $PingCmd to use? An SSH check from the > Nagios project? An SMB check? > > -- I think you've got a good idea with Nagios. Go to the downloads section off www.nagios.org, and get the plugins. You can use check_tcp, which will give you an exit status of zero if it connects, and 1 or 2 (configurable) if it doesn't. It's also very easy to set the timeout values you want to use.
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