Bruce Thayre wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I've been a maintainer of an old install of backuppc until our server > recently died. I've reinstalled and brought all other services back > except for backuppc. Many of our backup clients are behind routers and > I had been using the ClientNameAlias option in their respective > config.pl files. However, when I try the test command: > bash-4.1$ /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v $CLIENT try: CLIENT='name as in $Conf{ClientNameAlias}' ping -c2 $CLIENT sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v $CLIENT > > I get the output: > > Name server doesn't know about $CLIENT; trying NetBios > cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup $CLIENT > cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output querying $CLIENT on > $UNREGISTERED_IP_ON_OUR_SUBNET > name_query failed to find name $CLIENT > > NetBiosHostIPFind: couldn't find IP address for host $CLIENT > host not found > > I'm a little confused by the output. I have the host setup with > DHCP=0, and rsyncd is my backup method in /etc/config.pl. I'm not quite > sure why backuppc is trying to use the hostname as a netbios name, and > why it seems to ignore the router ip I provide in the client's config.pl > file. More perplexing is that nmblookup seems to return an ip address, > but that ip address is not in use. It won't resolve using nslookup, so > I'm can't understand where it was found. Any insight would be greatly > appreciated. > Thanks, > Bruce > My Config: /etc/backuppc/config.pl: $Conf{NmbLookupPath} = '/usr/bin/nmblookup'; $Conf{PingPath} = '/bin/ping';
/etc/backuppc/CLIENT.pl $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'name of CLIENT'; $Conf{NmbLookupCmd } = '$nmbLookupPath -A $host'; $Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd } = '$nmbLookupPath $host'; $Conf{FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck} = ''; br Matthias -- Don't Panic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/