Hi there,
On Wed, 10 Jun 2026, Matthias@gmx... wrote:
Thank you for your fast response. It makes me happy.
:)
I have another client where $Conf{ClientNameAlias} is also defined as
array. This client is backing up well.
I gather devel-w8 is a Windows box. Is this client a Windows box too?
... I changed $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to be a string in both. The
other client is working well, as before and devel-w8 isn't ...
Maybe it is a problem that the client devel-w8 is currently
not able to connect to the server?
Hmmm. You have $Conf{XferMethod} set to 'rsyncd'. What did you do on
the client(s) to get the rsync daemon running? You have also changed
the port number on the clients. Have you tested that it works as you
expect on all the clients? Can you connect (manually, using ordinary
rsync) from a workstation to the rsync daemon on the devel-w8 machine?
Do any clients run a local firewall? Many Windows clients do. There
might be useful information from the XferLOG when BackupPC tries to do
a backup, can we see it? At least the first few lines of it including
the command line for the transport mechanism. It should look a little
like this:
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
XferLOG file /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/devel-w8/XferLOG.NNNN.z created 2026-05-27 04:15:58
Backup prep: type = full, case = 4, inPlace = 0, doDuplicate = 0, newBkupNum ...
Running: /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /var/lib/BackupPC
--bpc-host-name ...
...
...
full backup started for directory BACKUP4U
...
...
8<----------------------------------------------------------------------
Do these clients all have static IPs? How are the IPs resolved? Does
the status information for the client in the first few lines of
http://..../BackupPC_Admin?host=devel-w8
tell you anything about 'pings' to the client succeeding/failing?
The issue isn't important or urgent. I could delete this old
windows8 client and the issue is gone.
Well, some might say that all things considered that is the best thing
that you could possibly do with a Windows 8 client, but it sounds like
defeat to me (and I don't much care for defeat. :)
--
73,
Ged.
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