Re: [BackupPC-users] newbie: backupPC installed ok, but trouble with 1st backup

[Bowie B. <Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com>]

On 11/24/2012 1:13 AM, Matthew Grob wrote:
>
> Great points and I sure agree.  Actually It's not me blocking ICMP - 
> seems it's blocked outside of my control, not exactly sure where,
> but I can't ping between the machines - they are not on the same 
> subnet - in fact I can't ping _any_ machine that is outside
> the subnet, so that why I believe ICMP is being blocked by the ISP - 
> and could be an issue for other backupPC-ers.
>
> I'm using IPv4 right now.
>
> So I've got the PingCMD essentially disabled, which allows backupPC to 
> proceed, but it's not I think a good long
> term solution for reasons mentioned on this thread.
>
> Btw thanks everyone for your replies - seems there is a great 
> community here.  I'm hoping to add a few new converts
> to join the fun here, if I can get things to work.    The next issue 
> I'm facing is to get the BackupFilesOnly feature to work -
> will send that on a separate thread if I can't get it to work soon 
> (right now it's backing up everything despite me specifying otherwise)

You are probably setting it wrong.  That is a very common problem with 
BackupFilesOnly and BackupExclude.

If you are using the GUI, the "Key" needs to be one of your share names 
(or * if it should apply to all).  After you have added the key, then 
you can add a list of files/directories to it.

-- 
Bowie