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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/