Re: [BackupPC-users] User reports / Use Cases ?

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

On 03/28 08:09 , Ski Kacoroski wrote:
> First attempt used LDAP instead of DNS to figure out the mapping between 
> name and IP because all my machines were Macs (no nmblookup) and they 
> had autogenerated names in dns based on the IP they were given by DHCP. 
>   While this worked, it was not optimal.  Since I was already using 
> cfengine on the clients to stuff LDAP with the client mac address and 
> name (this is based on barcode, site, and user), I wrote a script to 
> create dhcp host statements for each client.  This is much better as I 
> do not have to modify BackupPC (just assume all clients on static). 
> Also as the client changes from wired to wireless or between networks, 
> DHCP and DDNS do all the work of making sure the name is attached to the 
> correct IP address.  So far no major problems (some minor issues on the 
> cut over from one DHCP naming scheme to the other).
> 
> Once I get my users authenticating against LDAP (my current project as 
> LDAP is only used for machines and as an email directory), I plan to tie 
> BackupPC into it for authentication and for sending emails of problems 
> directly to the users (currently all warning emails goto a helpdesk 
> account).  The idea is that we know the user on the machine by the 
> machine name so a simple script should be able to go through the 
> BackupPC hosts file and replace the helpdesk account with the users name.
> 
> Finally, almost all of my users currently have a common user directory 
> (nsuser) which is great from the BackupPC perspective has they can all 
> use a common config file.  For the ones (mostly Tech folks) who have 
> named user directories, I have been hand edited config files for each 
> machine (fine for 20 users, but not 1500).  This will be changing when 
> we move people to LDAP and they get unique UID's and "real" directories 
> with their name.  I am planning to write a script that again goes 
> through the hosts file and creates config.pl in each machine directory 
> to backup that users data.

wow. quite a project you have there. Lots of that was over my head, but I'm
not the LDAP guy around here.

is any of that generalizable into something for the BackupPC upstream
distribution?

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com