On 2016-08-18 00:39, ab AT berner-telecom DOT de wrote:
> Hi Backuppc-Users,
> 
> I am new to this list so please bare with me in case I am doing
> something odd.
> 
> I am have been using backuppc on a debian 8.5 vm server since quite 
> some
> time now and have made backups and restores successfully to a remote
> system called "mars" with a given fixed ip-address.
> I am still running version 3.3.0 on a debian 8.5 Linux System.
> 
> Today, I wanted to restore a single file and got the message
> 
> 2016-08-15 11:43:29 restore failed (host mars has mismatching netbios
> name )

This indicates:
- You are using smb
- Nmblookup is returning something that doesn't jive.  Maybe multiple IP 
addresses, maybe a different workgroup or system name than expected.  
That's the place to start.

> I restarted both the debian vm system as well as the windows 7 host but
> the result is the same. I saw a potential problem occuring in case 
> there
> is a Wifi on the same system life, but it isn't.
> 
> I checked
> 
> # ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:0c:29:4f:73:82
>            inet Adresse:192.168.1.38  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Maske:255.255.255.0
>            inet6-Adresse: fe80::20c:29ff:fe4f:7382/64
> Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metrik:1
>            RX packets:24940 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:12009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
>            RX bytes:4221114 (4.0 MiB)  TX bytes:8086940 (7.7 MiB)
> 
> lo        Link encap:Lokale Schleife
>            inet Adresse:127.0.0.1  Maske:255.0.0.0
>            inet6-Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metrik:1
>            RX packets:9000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:9000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
>            RX bytes:4706177 (4.4 MiB)  TX bytes:4706177 (4.4 MiB)
> 
> 
> and .....
> 
> # perl -e 'print(gethostbyname("mars") ? "ok\n" : "not found\n");'
> # ok
> 
> but this does not really indicate the problem to me.
> 
> It is important to say that the backup works, the restore doesn't. The
> last successfull restore was on 14th of june. The only thing I am aware
> having changed is the
> upgrade vom debian 8.3 to 8.5 but I wouldn't really know how that could
> harm it.
> 
> Any hint/suggestion is welcome.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Andreas from germany

Use nmblookup from the backuppc side and ipconfig /all from the guest 
side.

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