Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre connection failures

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:59 AM, haruspex <pri...@gm...> wrote:
>
> “rsync target::” works just fine:
> vm-backuppc# /usr/local/bin/rsync 192.168.0.118::
> docs            Documents and Settings
> dDrive          Entire D Drive
>
> The logs don't provide anything more specific than “Backup failed on
> <HostName> (inet connect: Operation timed out)”. I guess the problem
> is somewhere with how BackupPC handles the sockets or nearby, judging
> by results of “grep -r "inet connect" *”...

Are you using the IP address in the backuppc config, or does it have
to do name resolution?

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  Les Mikesell
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