[BackupPC-users] backup clients from anywhere

Hi,

laptops are traveling through the world changing the (and often more than one) ip address. I’ve setup scripts (for os x, w7) to collect these data and push it into a db. Periodically, the /etc/hosts file on the backuppc server is updated with these data.

Now, nmblookup doesn’t use the /etc/hosts file, but $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = ‘xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’ in the /etc/backuppc/CLIENTS.pl file which can be updated periodically as well to the latest data.

Are there other/simpler possibilities already implemented for clients to be able to backup from “foreign” networks? Is there any possibility to deal with the multiple ip addresses a client can have?

tia, Thomas

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