On Wednesday 28 September 2011 20.26:25 Arnold Krille wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2011 18:59:38 Tim Fletcher wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 17:30 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > > > I have a laptop that is dual-boot (Linux and WinXP) and gets the same > > > IP from DHCP in both OS's. Today I have two entries in BackupPC for > > > this laptop (hostname_lnx and hostname_win) with different backup > > > methods for each (rsync over ssh for Linux and SMB for WinXP). This > > > works good for me with one small exception - I always gets a > > > "Backup-Failed" message for one of them each night. > > > Does someone have a suggestion on how to solve this in a more > > > "beautiful" way? > > > > Write a ping script that finds out is the laptop is in Windows or Linux > > so one of the other of the backup hosts won't ping. > > Yep, detecting the os with nmap should work. Or if you are not using dhcp > or only for one of them, you could distinguish by ip-address. > > > You can also make use of the fact that most desktop distros have avahi > > installed and use <short hostname>.local as a target host name. > > That will work until you install bonjour for windows (which is very nice in > networks relying on zeroconf). > > Using the same archive-method for both would involve either mingw with > stuff on the windows-machine or exporting / as C$ in samba. But still you > will have different paths inside these shares which results in files and > paths only present every other day. > Better to use two different backup-"hosts" for the two os'es.
Thanks for the suggestion with nmap. I now have an almost working "ping" script (still got some fine-tuning to do) to determine which OS is booted. Regards -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
