actually what was going on was i wasn't putting my hosts.pl files in the
right directory. thanks again for the -v tip.
On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 9:52 PM gregrwm <p...@whitleymott.net> wrote:
> 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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