The problem was I didn't have the DHCP checkbox set. Checking that box made it work, I had it off because I thought I remembered reading somewhere to leave it off even if they are DHCP. I don't remember the reason for that though.
Andrew LaPierre IT Director Georgia-Cumberland Conference [email protected] 706-629-7951 x 368 On 9/3/2010 8:59 AM, Michael Stowe wrote: >> I'm setting up a new install of BackupPC on Ubuntu 10.04, and have run >> into a problem. I have rsyncd running fine on both a Win XP and Win 7 >> machine, I'm able to login to the share from the terminal of the server >> running BackupPC with the command rsync u...@host::backup, and get a >> listing after entering the password. I'm pretty sure that means my >> clients are configured properly. However, when I try to do a backup, I >> get >> >> Backup failed oncomputer >> <http://copia.gccsda.com/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?host=alapierre-d630> >> (inet connect: Connection timed out) >> >> >> I've checked all the XFER settings, and they all appear to be correct. >> >> XferMethod = rsyncd >> RsyncShareName = backup (same as the rsyncd client share) >> RsyncdUserName = correct >> RsyncdPasswd = also correct >> RsyncAuthRequired = checked >> >> Those should be all it needs to connect I believe, but it times out >> every time. Is there something >> you guys can think of that I should check? I have opened port 873 on >> both windows boxes, and don't >> even have the firewall running on the Linux box. I also think that >> shouldn't matter since I can connect from the terminal, I'm thinking >> something must be configured improperly with the BackupPC server. >> Thanks for any help you can give me. >> >> -Andrew > Try rsync manually > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
