On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 17:30 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote:
> I have a laptop that is dual-boot (Linux and WinXP) and gets the same IP from 
> DHCP in both OS's. Today I have two entries in BackupPC for this laptop 
> (hostname_lnx and hostname_win) with different backup methods for each (rsync 
> over ssh for Linux and SMB for WinXP). This works good for me with one small 
> exception - I always gets a "Backup-Failed" message for one of them each 
> night.
> Does someone have a suggestion on how to solve this in a more "beautiful" way?

Write a ping script that finds out is the laptop is in Windows or Linux
so one of the other of the backup hosts won't ping.

You can also make use of the fact that most desktop distros have avahi
installed and use <short hostname>.local as a target host name.

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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