Having received valuable help from David While (the 2nd of his suggestions is still being tested but it is looking good) I thought I would give something back in return. This may already be well known to some but the material below might prove useful to others.
The localhost.pl target should dump /etc by using tar transport. The new installation steadfastly refused to do so, saying that the system did not respond to pings. This is manifestly ridiculous! I remembered from solving an issue on SWMBO's Win-10 machine some months back that IPV6 and IPV4 do not always play well together. Sure enough, disabling IPV6 on the server made things start working again. This is an all-IPV4 network here so disabling IPV6 is no great hardship. https://itsfoss.com/disable-ipv6-ubuntu-linux/ shows how to do it on a Ubuntu system. The underlying issue ought to be fixed properly one day but this is a good enough work-around for me for the time being. Paul
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