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From: Daniel F. <fle...@ze...> - 2003-03-05 14:14:49
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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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