Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up hosts with different IP addresses?

[Wolfgang K. <sp...@sp...>]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:59 -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
> It's not that easy when the host name changes.

Do you have an idea why backuppc reliably tries the same address all the
time, but when gethostbyname is called via perl -e it returns
alternating results? Because I could live with delayed because in case
the looked up IP address is not the one used at the time backuppc tries
to initiate a backup.

> The easiest way is use netbios names.  That's built-in to WinXX and
> can be support on linux usign nmbd from samba.  So long as your
> notebook responds to nmblookup multicasts with a name/ipaddress
> that BackupPC recognizes, then it should work correctly for various
> IP addressess.

If nothing else I'll just use nmbd, but I'm not quite happy to install
samba on all the machines, even when not running smbd.

> By the way, I only use WLAN for my laptop backups using BackupPC/rsync.
> It works very nicely.

Yes, it does indeed, at the moment I'm backing up mostly via WLAN since
that's what is used primarily, and rsync really does a great job.

Regards
WK
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