Rick writes:
> 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.
My WinXX laptop is similar. I use the netbios name to identify it
and nmblookup on BackupPC to find it. See $Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd}.
So one option is to run nmbd on your linux machine. Or you can modify
$Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd} to be any command that returns the IP
address.
Craig
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