Il 17/11/2010 08:32, Daniel Mueller ha scritto: > I'm backing up a host behind a router/firewall which in general works fine. > > The firewall forwards only the ssh port and blocks ping requests. So I > tried to set Set to something like > > $sshPath -l root $host /bin/true > > Running this manually (as user backuppc) correctly returns 0 on success > 255 when the host can't be reached. But backuppc complains that pings to > host have failed?! Any idea why this won't work? That command lets you login as root to the remote machine and execute "/bin/true" there.
You need to ping the remote machine _from_ the server but the firewall blocks you. Set PingCmd simply to "/bin/true" (and hope the remote host keeps working fine) HTH gc :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
