On 11/24/2012 1:13 AM, Matthew Grob wrote: > > 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)
You are probably setting it wrong. That is a very common problem with BackupFilesOnly and BackupExclude. If you are using the GUI, the "Key" needs to be one of your share names (or * if it should apply to all). After you have added the key, then you can add a list of files/directories to it. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
