Hello,
The other client is Linux. But anyhow - I changed both to string.
Could it be that the GUI shows the last known error. As long as devel-w8 is
offline it stays the
last know error.
I have to install the setup program again and test it again. But this could
need some month😂️
local firewall isn't a problem for me😁️.
I developed some stuff for bare metal restore of Windows and Linux clients
from the Data in
BackupPC. For Windows I use cygwin.
One part is a client program which opens 2 or 3 ssh remote forwarding
connections to my server.
The BackuPC server ($Conf{DumpPre*Cmd} have to prepare some things before
the backup start
(backup junction points, access rights, MBR, partition format, ...) and the
$Conf{DumpPost*Cmd}
have some cleanups at the end.
BackupPC use the forwarded local ports on server side to connect to the
client.
Thank you very much
Matthias
Am Donnerstag, dem 11.06.2026 um 15:20 +0100 schrieb G.W. Haywood:
> 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. :)
>
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