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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