Bruce Thayre wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> Thanks for your prompt reply! I gave your recommendations a try and
> had no luck. Setting CLIENT='name as in $Conf{ClientNameAlias}' doesn't
> actually substitute the value for ClientNameAlias. Bash doesn't know
> the config file, so just returns that as a string if I try to ping
> it...i.e.
>
> bash-4.1$ echo $CLIENT
> name as in $Conf{ClientNameAlias}
if your client called "MyClient" than:
CLIENT='MyClient'
ping -c2 $CLIENT
sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v $CLIENT
;)
>
> I also tried adding those nmblookup specific lines to my config, but get
> the same output as before when running the dump command. What confuses
> me is I specify rsyncd as my method, so I'm not sure why backuppc is
> trying to use netbios names for lookups. I also don't know where it's
> getting this funny ip that isn't actually there, but if it were
> registered would be on our subnet. For some reason or another, backuppc
> won't try to ping what I specify as ClientNameAlias, and instead tries
> to lookup the host netbios name. Any ideas? Thanks so much for the help!
> Bruce
>
>
> On 12/8/2012 1:33 AM, Matthias Meyer wrote:
>> Bruce Thayre wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>> I've been a maintainer of an old install of backuppc until our
>>> server
>>> recently died. I've reinstalled and brought all other services back
>>> except for backuppc. Many of our backup clients are behind routers and
>>> I had been using the ClientNameAlias option in their respective
>>> config.pl files. However, when I try the test command:
>>> bash-4.1$ /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v $CLIENT
>> try:
>> CLIENT='name as in $Conf{ClientNameAlias}'
>> ping -c2 $CLIENT
>> sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v $CLIENT
>>> I get the output:
>>>
>>> Name server doesn't know about $CLIENT; trying NetBios
>>> cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup $CLIENT
>>> cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output querying $CLIENT on
>>> $UNREGISTERED_IP_ON_OUR_SUBNET
>>> name_query failed to find name $CLIENT
>>>
>>> NetBiosHostIPFind: couldn't find IP address for host $CLIENT
>>> host not found
>>>
>>> I'm a little confused by the output. I have the host setup with
>>> DHCP=0, and rsyncd is my backup method in /etc/config.pl. I'm not quite
>>> sure why backuppc is trying to use the hostname as a netbios name, and
>>> why it seems to ignore the router ip I provide in the client's config.pl
>>> file. More perplexing is that nmblookup seems to return an ip address,
>>> but that ip address is not in use. It won't resolve using nslookup, so
>>> I'm can't understand where it was found. Any insight would be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bruce
>>>
>> My Config:
>> /etc/backuppc/config.pl:
>> $Conf{NmbLookupPath} = '/usr/bin/nmblookup';
>> $Conf{PingPath} = '/bin/ping';
>>
>> /etc/backuppc/CLIENT.pl
>> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'name of CLIENT';
>> $Conf{NmbLookupCmd } = '$nmbLookupPath -A $host';
>> $Conf{NmbLookupFindHostCmd } = '$nmbLookupPath $host';
>> $Conf{FixedIPNetBiosNameCheck} = '';
>>
>> br
>> Matthias
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