From 93cf7cf99a72cc9a6af670e846b479c37e07c2ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Marrese <marrese@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:44:14 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Make pinging hosts configurable

Add a new configuration option to choose whether remote hosts should be
pinged to check if they are up or not. Disabling this option is useful if
your remote hosts don't reply to ICMP pings for security reasons.
---
 bacap | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bacap b/bacap
index 42273ab..f72b6fd 100755
--- a/bacap
+++ b/bacap
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ BACKUP_PATH=/backup
 # Date format used for backed up directories (passed to the date command)
 DATE_FMT="%Y-%m-%d"
 
+# Ping remote hosts to check if they are up (set to 0 if your hosts don't
+# reply to ICMP pings).
+PING_CHECK=1
+
 # rsync flags to use
 RSYNC_FLAGS="-aAXHx --numeric-ids --delete"
 
@@ -77,7 +81,7 @@ perror() {
 	echo "$@" >&2
 }
 
-host_up() {
+ping_host() {
 	ping -c1 "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
@@ -115,7 +119,7 @@ do
 	[ -d "$dst" ] &&
 		perror "$dst already exists, skipping..." &&
 		continue
-	! host_up $host &&
+	[ "$PING_CHECK" -eq 1 ] && ! ping_host $host &&
 		perror "$host is down, skipping..." &&
 		continue
 	[ -r "$exclude" ] &&
-- 
2.43.0