Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming clients from IPs?

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 8:29 AM Kenneth Porter  wrote:

>
> If the hosts support mDNS (and Windows does), use hostname.local. You might
> need to install the Avahi package on your BackupPC server to use mDNS.

That still doesn't completely solve his problem.  Whether he uses
DNS/mDNS or puts the IP in ClientAliasName he still needs to rename
the existing backups made with the IP as the hostname.  Does that take
more than just changing the host and renaming the directory under pc/
to match?

-- 
Les Mikesell
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming clients from IPs?

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:26 AM -0400 backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:


Why don't you just use the host names rather than the IP address?
The hostname should then resolve to the write IP address assuming you
have that set up write on your system.


If the hosts support mDNS (and Windows does), use hostname.local. You might 
need to install the Avahi package on your BackupPC server to use mDNS. This 
eliminates the need to set up a DNS server for your LAN.






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