RE: [BackupPC-users] Weird no ping problem

[Daniel F. <fle...@ze...>]

What linux distribution do you use? I was recently installing backuppc on a
debian machine and got the same error. The reason is the different syntax of
the ping command on debian. I'm not quite sure what the option was ("-w" or
"-c") but I can look it up and post it to the mailinglist.
You can try to grep the BackupPC-Script for the ping-command and execute the
command manually on the shell.

Hope that helps,
Daniel.

BTW: BackupPC-developer - you are doing a great job!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny L. Wales [mailto:jo...@ma...] 
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:52 PM
> To: bac...@li...
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] Weird no ping problem
> 
> 
> I have a host which is presently not backing up. The problem 
> is very strange and looks like a bug. 
> 
> The status page looks like this:
> 
>     * This PC is used by hsu...@bo....
>     * Last email sent to hsu...@bo... was at 3/2 
> 01:19, subject
> "BackupPC: no recent backups on testing2000".
>     * Last status is state "idle" (no ping) as of 3/3 09:43.
>     * Pings to testing2000 have failed 2 consecutive times.
>  * Prior to that, pings to testing2000 have succeeded 6 
> consecutive times. 
> 
> 
> It continues to say this after 4 requests for full backups. 
> Each of those results in backuppc saying "Ok, requested full 
> backup of testing2000". Then, I come right back to the 
> testing2000 summary page, and see the same thing. 
> 
> I know what you're thinking! "Oh, that machine must not be 
> alive, so the ping fails and the backup fails and this 
> yuk-yuk needs to tell the user to leave their machine on". 
> Well, here's the alarming truth:
> 
> [root@hylafax testing2000]# ping testing2000
> Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP 
> PING testing2000.internal.booksys.com (192.168.10.159) from 
> 192.168.10.135
> : 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from testing2000.internal.booksys.com
> (192.168.10.159): icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=748 usec
> 64 bytes from testing2000.internal.booksys.com
> (192.168.10.159): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=327 usec
> 64 bytes from testing2000.internal.booksys.com
> (192.168.10.159): icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=333 usec
> 
> --- testing2000.internal.booksys.com ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss 
> round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.327/0.469/0.748/0.197 ms 
> [root@hylafax testing2000]#
> 
> Clearly, from the machine where Backuppc is running, you can 
> ping this machine.
> 
> When I request the backup, some new files are created:
> 
> -rw-r-----    1 backuppc backuppc        0 Mar  3 09:43 NewFileList
> -rw-r-----    1 backuppc backuppc        0 Mar  3 09:43 XferLOG.z
> -rw-r-----    1 backuppc backuppc      506 Mar  3 09:43 backups
> -rw-r-----    1 backuppc backuppc      506 Mar  3 09:40 backups.old
> drwxr-x---    3 backuppc backuppc     4096 Mar  3 09:43 new
> 
> Now, that directory, new/, has only one entry:
> [root@hylafax testing2000]# ls -l new/
> total 4
> drwxr-x---    2 backuppc backuppc     4096 Mar  3 09:43 fe$
> [root@hylafax testing2000]#
> 
> Which is, itself, empty.
> 
> Very strange, yes? Anyone seen something like this before?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Johnny Wales
> Book Systems, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
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