Great points and I sure agree. Actually It's not me blocking ICMP - seems it's
blocked outside of my control, not exactly sure where,
but I can't ping between the machines - they are not on the same subnet - in
fact I can't ping _any_ machine that is outside
the subnet, so that why I believe ICMP is being blocked by the ISP - and could
be an issue for other backupPC-ers.
I'm using IPv4 right now.
So I've got the PingCMD essentially disabled, which allows backupPC to proceed,
but it's not I think a good long
term solution for reasons mentioned on this thread.
Btw thanks everyone for your replies - seems there is a great community here.
I'm hoping to add a few new converts
to join the fun here, if I can get things to work. The next issue I'm facing
is to get the BackupFilesOnly feature to work -
will send that on a separate thread if I can't get it to work soon (right now
it's backing up everything despite me specifying otherwise)
Re: [BackupPC-users] newbie: backupPC installed ok, but trouble with 1st backup
From: Arnold Krille <arnold@ar...> - 2012-11-23 21:23
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:14:53 -0800 Matthew Grob <mgrob@...>
wrote:
>
> THANKS. I'm not sure I would have figured that one out. ICMP is
> often blocked these days so I would think this may be a common issue
> for backupPC?
Which is an interesting future we face there.
With IPv6 you have to have ICMP enabled, otherwise you won't get far...
So, if you are blocking ICMP-Ping to "hide", think again and make your
systems secure so you don't have to hide. Its the future and the right
thing.
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