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.
Joseph Bishay wrote at about 23:46:07 -0400 on Monday, April 12, 2021: > Hello, > > I hope you are all doing very well today. > > I am using BackupPC for a number of servers and everything is working > well. The computers are all identified by their IP addresses in the host > file and it gets very confusing which computer is which IP address. Is > there a way to give a nickname or some other identifier for each computer? > I saw the field 'ClientNameAlias' but I am unclear if this is the solution > or if I use it will the backups stop working? > > Thank you, > Joseph > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/