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BackupPC and nearlyfreespeech.net
Just in case anyone else has the bright idea of trying to use their existing BackupPC backup server to backup websites on nearlyfreespeech.net, let me save you some time: it will not work.
nearlyfreespeech.net assigns different IP addresses to different web services. So you can ping your web host, for example, at xxxx.nfshost.com, but the SSH server you connect to in order to gain SSH access to your hosting directory is on a different IP at ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net. If you try to ping ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net you will get no response.
For better or worse, BackupPC insists on a backup client being pingable before it will attempt a backup.
If anyone has a bright idea, I am all ears....
In the meantime, rdiff-backup[1] works nicely.
[1] http://blog.langex.net/index.cgi/Admin/backups/rdiff-backup/
posted at: 09:30 | path: /Hosting/NearlyFreeSpeech | permanent link to this entry