Hi, 05.01.2008 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.
Oh... a network setup which I find problematic... >>> 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. Yes... that's a difficult situation. I don't know of a way to achieve this, but you could try to set up a CNAME record that gets updated to point to the currently active A record, i.e. when the wired IP address is assigned let it point there, otherwise point it to the WLAN A record. Probably quite complicated :-) >> 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 ;-) Sure, but once you've got these problems resolved it might be a nice solution. Will be fun anyway ;-) > 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. Perhaps this could becoma a feature request, though I suspect that would be low on the priority list. 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
