Situation: We use BackupPC to backup all the boxes at
this satellite office. Yesterday morning the main office lost network
connectivity, thus we lost our Domain server and primary/local DNS server.
While the main office was down, we were not able to run any backups
(authentication issues), understandable. During this down time we changed
our DHCP server to use a different secondary DNS server, during this the
DHCP server was reset and thus many of our boxes got new IPs. The main
office came back up around noon.
Today I have two errors in the "Failures that need attention" list, however:
* Under "Host" it gives an IP address instead of the host name If one
clicks on this, one is taken to a page stating "Error: Unknown host or user
###.###.###.###".
* Under "Last Try" it gives the top of the current hour, thus it
is apparently retrying these host IPs every cycle.
Looking at the log file for yesterday I can see a bunch of lines
reading "###.###.###.###: DHCP ###.###.###.### host" for these and for
other hosts, where the two IP address given are the same. I do not recall
seeing these lines in the log file before.
Looking at the Host Summary page, all the hosts report as being fine,
including the two hosts which HAD the IPs given on the Status page.
Therefore, two points:
Point 1: Reporting bug and/or feature request: Ideally BackupPC should not
have gotten into this state, but since this is such a contrived case I can
see just ignoring it. However there should be some UI improvements to deal
which such discongruent data. e.g. A way to clear IP addresses from the
queue of hosts retrying.
Point 2: How can I manually clear these errors, or will they self clear
after another day or so?
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