[BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts when ISPs hijack the DNS

I am running BackupPC 3.3.0 on an Ubunut 12.04.3 system.  My hosts (which are all Windows PCs accessed via SMB) are set to dhcp=0, which has worked well over several years/versions of BackupPC.  According to the docs on How BackupPC Finds Hosts, these sequence is: - first gethostbyname() -

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts with DNS hijacking ISPs

I am running BackupPC 3.3.0 on an Ubunut 12.04.3 system. My hosts (which are all Windows PCs accessed via SMB) are set to dhcp=0, which has worked well over several years/versions of BackupPC. According to the docs on How BackupPC Finds Hosts, these sequence is: - first gethostbyname() -

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC finds the wrong hosts with DNS hijacking ISPs

George, Now that's annoying. Thanks for figuring out the problem. Are your local PC client IP addresses fixed/known? If so, you should be able to set $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to the IP address, and the code should do the right thing (even though DNS will still return

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

swapping. Also, on the windows side you might have an on-access virus scanner slowing you down. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com On 9/13/10 10:26 PM, George Adams wrote: Hi, all. I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 on a Linux server (in my home), using it to backup my WinXP box

[BackupPC-users] Why does my rsync backup takes 7 hours?

{BackupFilesOnly} = [    'Documents and Settings/George Adams/My Documents/My Pictures',    'Documents and Settings/George Adams/My Documents/Photos', ]; XFERLOG.570.Z --- incr backup started back to 2010-08-25 08:00:03 (backup #558) for directory cDrive Connected to myhostname