Someone recently brought up some questions about securely backing up laptops with backuppc, and it prompted me to ask about some questions which I've been pondering.
I'm currently backing up several systems including a laptop which happens to be running ubuntu linux. Now one thing I've never properly addressed is that this laptop has both an internal ethernet card, and a pcmcia wi-fi card. Most times I use the wireless, but sometimes plug it into the wall instead. The issue is ensuring that I'm properly identifying this laptop. I really don't want to use dynamic dhcp and ddns, so I've got dhcp to assign fixed ip addresses based on mac addresses. This means that the laptop gets one or another ip address depending on whether it's using a wireless or wired connection, and it has different dns names depending on its ip address. Right now, I've got backuppc configured to look for it only using the wireless ip addr/name. Is there a way to configure backuppc to find it through either interface. Related to this is how to actually ensure that I'm backing up this particular laptop. Imagine that someone visited and borrowed my wi-fi card, the visitor's laptop would look like mine to backuppc which wouldn't be good. Is there a way to associated a backup with a given machine and not just the mac address? -- Rick DeNatale ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
