On Saturday 05 January 2008 11:35, Lars Köller wrote: > Hi Arno, > > thanks for your suggestions! > > Arno Lehmann schrieb: > >> 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. > > Yes, it seems so ;-) > > > 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. > > No they are in the same subnet. > > >> 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. > > Hmm, dynamic update is working, but when I'm connected per wire both > network adapters are active ... I think this will not work, cause static > IP assignment for different MAC accresses leads to some trouble inside > the DHCP server. > > > 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 :-) > > Yes, but it seems so simple, that trouble from Murphy will come with it, > too ;-) > > I hope Kern would be able to schedule a solution into the roadmap of > bacula for more than one IP or FQDN for a client.
If you don't have or cannot use Dynamic DNS updates, then use the Bacula console command SetIP (if I remember right) to have the Laptop tell the Director what IP it is using ... Good luck, Kern > > Best regards > > Lars ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
