I am trying to plan my first backupPC installation and have a question on how to set up the backupc/host file (Mandriva 9.0, intending to use rsync).
The "How BackupPC Finds Hosts" section in the documentation is very clear: for DHCP hosts I should set the DHCP flag to 1 and then will get NETBIOS name resolution (rmblookup). That means, that I need to install a samba server on each DHCP client - which is an overkill and an undesired complication, I do not need samba if I use rsync. 2 questions: 1. If the /etc/hosts files on the server and clients contain the correct IP addresses, can I than simply set the DHCP flag to 0 and fake using static addresses, even if a host has obtained its address via DHCP? 2. If yes, has anybody experience in using nmap for verifying/correcting the /etc/hosts entries for use by backupPC? At present I use nmap (run as root) to get a list of valid name<->IP address mappings for manually adjusting addresses if a DHCP laptop needs to assume certain server functions. It looks promising to digest this into an automatically run procedure. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
