Duh, if all else fails, reboot. That did it, thanks.
Mark Potter
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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Mark Potter <potter2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Situation: We use BackupPC to backup all the boxes at
> this satellite office.
> > Yesterday morning the main office lost network connectivity, thus we
> lost
> > our Domain server and primary/local DNS server. While the main office
> was
> > down, we were not able to run any backups (authentication
> > issues), understandable. During this down time we changed our DHCP
> server
> > to use a different secondary DNS server, during this the DHCP server was
> > reset and thus many of our boxes got new IPs. The main office came back
> up
> > around noon.
> >
> > Today I have two errors in the "Failures that need attention" list,
> however:
> > * Under "Host" it gives an IP address instead of the host name If one
> > clicks on this, one is taken to a page stating "Error: Unknown host or
> user
> > ###.###.###.###".
> > * Under "Last Try" it gives the top of the current hour, thus it
> > is apparently retrying these host IPs every cycle.
> >
> > Looking at the log file for yesterday I can see a bunch of lines
> > reading "###.###.###.###: DHCP ###.###.###.### host" for these and for
> other
> > hosts, where the two IP address given are the same. I do not recall
> seeing
> > these lines in the log file before.
> >
> > Looking at the Host Summary page, all the hosts report as being fine,
> > including the two hosts which HAD the IPs given on the Status page.
> >
> > Therefore, two points:
> >
> > Point 1: Reporting bug and/or feature request: Ideally BackupPC should
> not
> > have gotten into this state, but since this is such a contrived case I
> can
> > see just ignoring it. However there should be some UI improvements to
> deal
> > which such discongruent data. e.g. A way to clear IP addresses from the
> > queue of hosts retrying.
> >
> > Point 2: How can I manually clear these errors, or will they self clear
> > after another day or so?
>
> Have you tried restarting backuppc? The old IPs may just be cached
> somewhere.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
>
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