On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:18 -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote: > Someone recently brought up some questions about securely backing up > laptops with backuppc, and it prompted me to ask about some questions > which I've been pondering. > > I'm currently backing up several systems including a laptop which > happens to be running ubuntu linux. > > Now one thing I've never properly addressed is that this laptop has > both an internal ethernet card, and a pcmcia wi-fi card. Most times I > use the wireless, but sometimes plug it into the wall instead. > > The issue is ensuring that I'm properly identifying this laptop. I > really don't want to use dynamic dhcp and ddns, so I've got dhcp to > assign fixed ip addresses based on mac addresses. This means that the > laptop gets one or another ip address depending on whether it's using > a wireless or wired connection, and it has different dns names > depending on its ip address. > > Right now, I've got backuppc configured to look for it only using the > wireless ip addr/name. > > Is there a way to configure backuppc to find it through either interface. > You could make two hosts for it, one corresponding to each ip address, and that would not take up additional space due to pooling.
> Related to this is how to actually ensure that I'm backing up this > particular laptop. Imagine that someone visited and borrowed my wi-fi > card, the visitor's laptop would look like mine to backuppc which > wouldn't be good. Is there a way to associated a backup with a given > machine and not just the mac address? > Use rsync over ssh with a public key. The visitor's laptop will not have the key. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
