Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 01:44:13 -0500 on Tuesday, December 29, 2009:
> In the file /etc/BackupPC/pc/machinealias.pl, I have set:
> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = mymachine
> When I run from my shell
> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -d -v -f mymachinealias
> I get:
> cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /bin/ping -c 1 -w 3 mymachinealias
> cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output ping: unknown host mymachinealias
>
> The backup however works fine when run from the web interface.
>
> It seems like running BackupPC_dump doesn't use ClientNameAlias.
> This seems to be a bug or at the very least an undesirable feature ;)
>
>
My bad... the problem was the '-d' flag which I have always added by
habit which signals that the backup uses a dhcp address...
It works fine without the '-d' flag...
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