backuppc will even send warning emails for disabled hosts! you must remove
the email notify address!
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Craig Barratt <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John writes:
>
> > We were having a weird problem with nmblookup firing for a host that
> > was disabled with:
> >
> > $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '2';
> >
> > using BackupPC 3.1.0. The same thing happend when set to 1. My claim
> > is that BackupPC shouldn't be attempting to resolve any host with
> > BackupsDisabled set to 2, and it should not be looked up when it is
> > set to 1, unless a user explicitly requests that the host be backed
> > up. (I.E. it shouldn't be queued just because it's in the hosts file.)
>
> It still gets queued because there might be backups that need to expire.
>
> You are right - the disable check happens after the host alive check.
> It was done that way to handle the dhcp = 1 case (where you don't know
> which host it is until you run nmblookup).
>
> But in the normal case that check should be done earlier. I'll add
> that to the todo list.
>
> Craig
>
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