On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Boniforti Flavio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there. > > I'm struggling to find a definitive solution to my troubles: I'm backing > up servers which are on remote DSL connections. Just a few of them have > fixed IPs, thus I had to use DDNS services for the other ones. Because > of the propagation delay when an IP changes (and the related DDNS entry > too), I wanted to get to a better way: any clues/suggestions?
Here's a completely off the wall solution that I'm not entirely sure will work... Have the client determine it's own IP and then upload a file to your BackupPC server (ftp, scp, or other method). Then setup BackupPC to run a shell script (or python, perl, etc) prior to starting the backup that will process the uploaded files and make updates to your /etc/hosts file. For this to work I'm assuming that updates to /etc/hosts are work immediately and are not just check/cached on boot. Complicated but it would remove any dependency on DNS... Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
