On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 22:01, Steve Switzer wrote: > Hello! > I have one host that I can't seem to backup. When I try a manual > backup (from the machine I want to backup, incidentally), I see: > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Error: Can't find IP address for monsoon > > monsoon is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I checked the > netbios name of 192.168.0.199, and found that that machine is not > monsoon. > > Until I see monsoon at a particular DHCP address, you can only start > this request from the client machine itself. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
This means you should log into monsoon and use the web browser from there to start the first backup. > Also, nslookup works... > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# nslookup monsoon > Server: 192.168.0.2 > Address: 192.168.0.2#53 > > Name: monsoon.switzerny.org > Address: 192.168.0.199 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- But if nslookup works you should be able to set the 'dhcp' field in backuppc's host file to 0 for this machine and have everything work automatically. That field is supposed to imply that normal name lookups won't work. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
