Hi there,
I'm battling with some ping issues with backuppc. The result of which is that
no "automatic" or nightly backups are being done, the only way to backup my
laptop is manually, which works perfectly.
I've been doing a lot of googling to try to understand what the problem is, as
far as I can tell, everything should be correctly setup.
I have a laptop which uses DHCP to connect to the network, I connect it both
via wireless and wired (sometimes simultaneously). I don't want to have to make
any compromises with fixed IP's etc. I want backuppc to work with this laptop
despite DHCP.
I've met all of the requirements outlined in the docs, nmblookup works, pinging
to the netbios name works, it all delivers the correct result.
Still the problem persists, in the gci/web interface I consistently see "Pings
to jamesgmbp have failed x consecutive times.". When I manually backup, it will
say that pinging the machine was successful once.
I was confused enough with all of this going on, and my conf looking "right". I
then decided to get experimental and set $Conf{PingCmd} = '/bin/true';. Same
result. Setting $Conf{PingPath} = '/bin/true'; also changed nothing. (I haven't
been restarting backuppc after making changes, as it appeared to me as though
changes to the conf were reflected without requiring this).
So, in desperation I ask you what it is that I'm missing. It appears to me as
though I've covered all of the bases in the docs and now have nothing I could
further investigate without some input from those who know. It would also be
interesting (for debug purposes) to know how to force backuppc to ping, so I
don't have to wait an hour every time to tell whether the conf setting I
changed had an effect or not.
Thanks,
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