Norbert writes:
> I created a new share on an existing web server that I am backing up. The
> host configuration file was called '1and1-MW-common.pl', consistent with
> the case of the directory that I was backing up. I had added
> '1and1-MW-common 0 user' to the backuppc 'hosts' file. The backups were
> not starting, supposedly because of slow PING times, even though I had set
> '$Conf{PingMaxMsec} = 1000;' in the configuration file. To make a long
> story short, it appears that backuppc converted the host name in the
> 'hosts' file to lower case, and was looking for (but did not find)
> '1and1-mw-common.pl'. I renamed the host configuration file and
> everything is sunny once again.
>
> I am running backuppc 2-1-2 on an Ubuntu 6.10 server - waiting for a
> package to be available before upgrading.
BackupPC forces the host name to lower case.
I removed that in 3.0.0beta0, but since it broke some installations,
I kept the 2.x behavior in 3.0.0.
The original reason to force to lower case is that some tools to look
up the host name (like nmblookup) return upper case.
Craig
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