[BackupPC-users] Design-Question: backuppc should try backup after successfull ping?

[Matthias M. <Mat...@gm...>]

Hello,

Some of my workstations do not run 24h/day. So backuppc try to backup this 
workstations evcery hour, naturaly without success.
How is the design of backuppc?
Do it try a ping and only if ping returns an success it try a backup or do 
it try the backup without trying a ping?
Sometimes I find in the logfiles messages like:
2007-09-08 13:03:42 Backup aborted (Tar exited with error 65280 () status)
2007-09-08 14:00:14 ping too slow: 25.06msec
2007-09-08 15:00:08 ping too slow: 31.32msec
2007-09-08 16:00:08 full backup started for directory /
2007-09-08 16:54:29 Got fatal error during xfer (Unexpected end of tar 
archive)
2007-09-08 16:54:44 Backup aborted (lost network connection during backup)
2007-09-08 16:54:45 Saved partial dump 27
2007-09-08 17:00:22 no ping response
2007-09-08 18:03:04 ping too slow: 28.88msec
2007-09-08 19:00:15 full backup started for directory /

so I assume that backuppc ping the client before it try a backup.

br
Matthias
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