Re: [BackupPC-users] Nightly Backups are not running

[Ruslan S. <ru...@vs...>]

Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>   
>> Ruslan Sivak wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I set up BackupPC earlier this month, and even though manual backups 
>>> from the cgi seem to work fine, I am not seeing any nightly backups 
>>> taking place. 
>>>     
>>>       
>> How much disk space do you have?  A likely reason is being 95% full 
>> which is the default limit for starting backups.
>>
>>   
>>     
> Actually I think I've figured this out.
>
> It was pinging my pc and not backing it up as the ping was taking too 
> long.  Since we don't have local DNS, the pings were hitting a different 
> (non-local) server.
>
> I added my machine to the hosts file and it's working now, but I guess 
> this isn't a real solution for machines that use DHCP.
>
> Why is backuppc trying to ping the machine, while it uses netbios to 
> find actual machines to do the backup?  Shouldn't it resolved the name 
> to the ip using netbios first and then ping the ip?
>
> Russ
>
>   

I spoke too soon.  the backup runs when I run it manually from the 
command line, but nothing is being backed up nightly.  Is there a cron 
job that needs to run to back things up or something?

Russ