Re: [BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works
Tristan Stahnke wrote: > > On 12/6/06, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home >> page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 >> consecutive times.' >> >> However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually >> start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to >> king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' >> > I had a similar problem on my home network when I set the DHCP flag in > the conf/hosts file to 1. Setting it to 0 seemed to fix that problem. > Since I don't have a DNS server on my home network I'm guessing it > wasn't able to properly query the router for DHCP information, but it > was still able to communicate to the client when I manually started a > backup. If you manually specify the host in /etc/hosts and can ping > it from the commandline, I believe setting the DHCP flag to 0 should > fix the problem. Granted if the IP address of king-graham changes > perhaps something else is amiss. Good luck. > Okay, I set the DHCP flag to 0, and that seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks for the help. After checking the docs for the DHCP flag, I found that you should only set the flag to 1 if nmblookup (or gethostbyname) fails. In this case you need to specify a range of IP addresses and backuppc will query those specific addresses to request the hostname from those machines. Now that I understand this better, it's clear that I should have set the flag to 0. Thanks Tristan for pointing me in the right direction. -- Chris - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works
Travis Fraser wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 17:11 -0700, Chris Purves wrote: >> >> I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home >> page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 >> consecutive times.' >> >> However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually >> start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to >> king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' >> > Is this a laptop where it might go into suspend or leave the network? It's a machine that I dual-boot windows/linux. When I boot to linux the hostname changes, so it does effectively leave the network. -- Chris - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works
I had a similar problem on my home network when I set the DHCP flag in the conf/hosts file to 1. Setting it to 0 seemed to fix that problem. Since I don't have a DNS server on my home network I'm guessing it wasn't able to properly query the router for DHCP information, but it was still able to communicate to the client when I manually started a backup. If you manually specify the host in /etc/hosts and can ping it from the commandline, I believe setting the DHCP flag to 0 should fix the problem. Granted if the IP address of king-graham changes perhaps something else is amiss. Good luck. Tristan On 12/6/06, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home > page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 > consecutive times.' > > However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually > start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to > king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks. > > -- > Chris > > > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 17:11 -0700, Chris Purves wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home > page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 > consecutive times.' > > However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually > start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to > king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks. > Is this a laptop where it might go into suspend or leave the network? -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] smb scheduled backup fails, but manual works
Hi, I have a problem where a scheduled smb backup does not run. The home page for that machine shows 'Pings to king-graham have failed 109 consecutive times.' However, I can ping the machine from the command line and I can manually start an incremental backup after which the home page shows 'Pings to king-graham have succeeded 2 consecutive times.' Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Chris - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
