On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Löffler Thomas J. <t...@erdw.ethz.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > laptops are traveling through the world changing the (and often more than > one) ip address. I’ve setup scripts (for os x, w7) to collect these data and > push it into a db. Periodically, the /etc/hosts file on the backuppc server > is updated with these data. > > > > Now, nmblookup doesn’t use the /etc/hosts file, but $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = > ‘xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’ in the /etc/backuppc/CLIENTS.pl file which can be updated > periodically as well to the latest data. > > > > Are there other/simpler possibilities already implemented for clients to be > able to backup from “foreign” networks? Is there any possibility to deal > with the multiple ip addresses a client can have?
If the client pc users logs into the web interface to start the backup, it will find the address. But usually the bigger problem is that these roaming connections are going through a NAT router or firewall so the server can't connect back anyway. One solution is to run a VPN service like openvpn on the client and server and configure it to assign a known private address to each client when it is connected - and configure backuppc to use that address (via ClientAliasName). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ 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/