I run backuppc on about 15 computers and one networked Buffalo drive in a small museum. I've had it working well for about a year on an old computer running Centos 5.6 despite not knowing a great deal about Linux and networking, just the IT guy by default. The clients are mostly Windows XP, some Vista and Windows 7; also an iMac and a Centos web server. I've got DeltaCopy running on most of the Windows computers and use rsyncd; other windows use smb.
Last week I had occasion to change the DNS servers used by our router from those hosted by the network that controls our T1 line to OpenDNS when exploring a problem unrelated to backuppc. However, after making the change, I saw that a lot of the backups were failing due to slow ping times. When I increased the ping wait, they failed with messages like: Error connecting to rsync daemon at educationoffice:873: inet connect: Connection timed out. The xfer log on the Buffalo said: timeout connecting to 67.215.65.132:445, which is related to a OpenDNS.The linux and mac clients had no problems; they use rsync for xfer method. The one Windows 7 machine, which uses smb, also worked. Pings and nmblookups run from the command line in Mac OS 10.6.8 also were fine. I changed the DNS servers back and everything is normal again. Can someone explain what was going on just for my edification? Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure _______________________________________________ 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/
