On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:09:24PM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
> > On 4/29/2011 10:18 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> >> The host->ip resolution is being handled by a hosts file so I could
> >> add aliases there so BackupPC would treat them as separate clients,
> >> right?
> >
> > Yes, but you could also use the ClientAlias setting in backuppc itself
> > to make different host configurations point to the same real name or IP.
> 
> Can you point me to some documentation on how to use ClientAlias?
> Surprisingly googling "backuppc clientalias" didn't seem to get me
> what I needed. And I found no instances of that in the basic
> documentation.

Les almost got it right it's ClientNameAlias

  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#_conf_clientnamealias_

Enjoy.

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