Hi, 04.01.2008 11:55,, Lars Köller wrote:: > Dear experts, > > I'm looking for a solution to backup my Windows Professional Laptop over > multiple network adapters (LAN and WLAN) with different IP addresses.
Tricky... sometimes. > Bacula runs fine on the computer, but for backup I always have to > connect it per wire. When I'm running on WLAN, bacula can't connect > cause at the moment I have different static IP addresses for the both > interfaces and in the bacula client configuration it's only possible to > specify one name or IP address. > > Is there anybody out there who has a solution for this problem? It would > be fine to be able to configure a failover IP address, but that's only > possible for the Windows server variants when I recherches right. As I suppose the two network adapters are in different networks, you'd need a secondary IP address for the client in Bacula - that's not possible currently. > Another solution would be the possibility to configure more than one IP > address in bacula for an client and the director tries to connect to them. Exactly :-) I see two possible approaches. The one I usually use is to use dynamic DNS updates with the DHCP server, so that my notebook always has the same DNS name assigned, independent of its IP address. In the DIR configuration, I then use the FQDN as the address. The other possible solution is more fun: Set up a run before job to ping the client. Also set up a retry interval etc. The run before script could, if the ping fails, change the DIR configuration to use the next possible address and use bconsole to trigger a configuration reload. The DIR would retry that job later, with the new IP address. A bit of shellscript and possibly AWK would be necessary... unless you include the client configuration with the @-operator and, for example, only swap through the possible configuration files. Rather simple, now that I think about it :-) Hope this helps, Arno > Best regards > > Lars > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
