On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Christian Völker <chrischan AT knebb DOT de> 
wrote:
>
> is there an easy way to tell BackupPC a host changes IP address?
>
> I have a couple of hosts with fixed IP addresses (even though through
> DHCP) and sometimes they go abroad and connect with a VPN connection.
> Now how do I tell BackupPC to look for this additional VPN IP addresses?
>
> I could easily add another host with the second IP address but then it
> would do a full backup of the host when only connected through a small
> connection...

If you connect to the web interface from a host configured for DHCP to
start the backup, I think it will try the currently-connected address
in addition to the ranges you set in  $Conf{DHCPAddressRanges.  I
can't find that in a quick glance through the docs,but I think I've
seen it happen.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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