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 -- http://linux.spiney.org/debian_gnu_linux_on_an_ibm_thinkpad_t43p ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
