On 5/17/2011 4:46 PM, Magnus Larsson wrote: > Hi! > > I've been using backuppc for ages (more than 3 years) on my home > network, and it works just lovely, > > However, after upgrading my server to latest ubuntu (11.04) the > localhost backup fails. The error is "no ping response". All the other > machines work fine, but not the server itself. I have not changed > anything in the setup. When I manually ping as the user backuppc, that > is set to execute the backup, there is a ping response. Successful pings > with "localhost", 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.1.1. But still the backuppc backup > fails - no ping response. > > I did find that backuppc had no rights to rsync in the sudoers file, so > I added the line: > backuppc ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/rsync > > as given in the documentation and identical to what I have on all other > hosts. But still same error: no ping response. > > Any suggestions on how to approach this? Backuppc is version > 3.2.0-3ubuntu4.
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