[BackupPC-users] get host by script

Hi

        I want to backup some cluster that needs a script to know what
machine is the master. So this mean that i can not use the
ClientNameAlias directly, but i'm using it to define the cluster name
so i can use more freedom for the backup name.

        As backuppc uses the netbios if the dns fails, I'm trying to
"abuse" the NmbLookupFindHostCmd and by running manually i can see it is
working... the problem is that via backuppc, it then tried to do the
reverse NmbLookup for that IP and of course, it fails. As the $host in
NmbLookupCmd is the IP, i can not know what cluster it should return for
the reverse lookup. So the end result is the error:

"Dump failed: host clusterA has mismatching netbios name"

        So is there any workaround for this? What other people that
need to get the host by a script do?

        @Craig Barratt: How about adding a option to disable the
reverse netbios lookup?

Thanks
Higuita
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