Hello, Our host names are not completely set up correctly. The servers are most reliably accessed via their IP addresses rather than their hostnames so using the hostnames may not always work. Is that the best option?
Regarding mDNS, we have about 10 linux machines and 2 Windows machines so the hostname.local option would only work for the minority of clients. If the new backups were renamed to something other than IPs, it would be no problem as after a few weeks the older backups based on the IP names would be deleted automatically and the new ones with the names would remain. Thank you, Joseph On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:47 AM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote: > 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/ >
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