Re: [BackupPC-users] Dual Network and BackupPC

2009-05-11 Thread Les Mikesell 
MJB_SCE wrote:
 The problem with setting up two hosts for the same machine is we are getting 
 an error when it is on network A.  With having it be on the network B, it 
 will still error on the opposite network.  That is what we are trying to 
 avoid.

What kind of infrastructure do you have?  If there is a WINs server in 
the picture that covers both networks or dynamically-updated DNS, the 
server should be able to find it automatically.  Also, it should work to 
log into backuppc through the web interface and request a backup even 
when the name lookup fails for a box configured for dhcp addressing.

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Dual Network and BackupPC

2009-05-07 Thread Nicholas Hall 
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM, MJB_SCE backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.comwrote:


 We have a PC that we use BackupPC to backup the C:\ that connects to two
 different networks at different times. I do not know how to have the server
 check to see which network the PC is connected to and run it depending on
 which network BackupPC sees the PC on when it pings said computer. I can
 connect the server that runs our BackupPC to the two networks to accomplish
 running BackupPC on said PC. Any suggestions on options I can do in the
 config file, or any other suggestions?


Sounds like a job for DNS or NETBIOS.  nmblookup should resolve to the
current IP if you're using Samba as a transport.  Else, I'm imagining the
client PC with a script that updates it's DNS record periodically.  Or as
another alternative, you could create a seperate host in BackupPC using the
alternate network IP.

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