thank you!  just what i needed!

in backuppc3 i set BackupsDisable to 1 in config.pl, and set it to 0 in
just the hosts.pl i want to backup.  This apparently doesn't work in
backuppc4.  Too bad, that was handy.  But whatever, got it going, thanks
again.


On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 7:02 PM Norman J. Goldstein <norm...@telus.net>
wrote:

> I have found it useful at times to run
> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump from the command line e.g.
>
>    BackupPC_dump -f -v CLIENTNAME
>
> for a full backup with verbose messages.  Run this as the backuppc user.
>
>
> On 2022-05-06 16:22, gregrwm wrote:
>
> thanks for your reply
> they're all 0 already
> any other ideas?
>
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 6:07 PM Norman Goldstein <norm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you have clients with dhcp set to 1 in the /etc/BackupPC/hosts file,
>> try setting the dhcp to 0.  I had a similar problem, and this worked for my
>> situation.
>>
>>
>> On 2022-05-06 15:59, gregrwm wrote:
>>
>> when i invoke BackupPC_dump it always just says "nothing to do".  why
>> would it be doing that?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 4:51 PM gregrwm <p...@whitleymott.net> wrote:
>>
>>> i'm trying to get backuppc4 working on manjaro.  it's up and sends me
>>> mail like if i remove a host from the hosts file, but it's not backing up
>>> any hosts.  The logs look mostly normal, mentioning wakeups, nightly, and
>>> pool cleaning, but there's no mention of even trying to do any backups.
>>> Any ideas like what to try or what to look for?
>>>
>>> $Conf{IncrPeriod} = 0.97;
>>> $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0;
>>> $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} = -1;
>>>
>>
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