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Re: [BackupPC-users] Roaming Hosts

2013-03-12 09:55:40
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Roaming Hosts
From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
To: cvoelker AT knebb DOT de, "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:54:19 +0000
On 2013-03-12 13:12, Christian Völker wrote:
> is there an easy way to tell BackupPC a host changes IP address?

Beyond the DHCP option in the hosts file, no. That only makes BackupPC
search the local subnet for it.

The way to make roaming hosts accessible (to any service) is DNS. DynDNS is
easy. Or use a script that updates a DNS server with nsupdate.

Regards,
Tyler

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