Re: [BackupPC-users] Possible bug in status reporting

[Justin G. <jgu...@gm...>]

> Back to your earlier issues.  If you kill BackupPC then it is likely
> some status information will be out of date.  If you send an INT signal
> to BackupPC it will try to clean up gracefully, but it might not.  You
> don't need to kill and restart BackupPC each time you add a host.

I didn't kill the server, I hit the 'stop/dequeue backup' button on
the host's summary page. Shouldn't cancelling a job remove the job's
entry in the server status?

> Also, you shouldn't need to delete and recreate the host directory
> each time.  It's sufficient to just edit that host's config.pl file
> and then re-start the backup.

I tried deleting the host directory only after I had problems with old
backups interfering with new backups (I had changed the directory that
BackupPC was set to backup on the host). I was just trying to
eliminate possible sources of error.

I'll try doing this again, I'm going to try installing various
combinations of versions of ssh/rsync.

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