[BackupPC-devel] BackupPC 4.0.0alpha3 Bug? - Rsyncd & Windows DHCP machines

[Steven De Wit]

Hi Craig,

First off, thank you for the excellent BackupPC software.
I've been a (personal) user of the software for a few years already
and really like it.

Recentely I've deployed a new instance at my dad's home and I've used
the latest 4.0.0alpha3. At my place, I'm still running v3.x, so I
never ran into this issue.

BackupPC runs on a Linux machine and I'm trying to backup a Windows
laptop, which is running CygWin with SSH & Rsyncd on a DHCP IP-address.
As such, I'm using nmblookup to figure out the HostIP that belongs to
the Host.

I've noticed however (in the bad XferLOG), that when rsync_bpc is
started, it is provided with the 'host' variable to connect to,
whereas it should of course connect to the 'hostIP'.

I did some searching in the settings and afterwards turned to the Perl
code and have fixed my issue in the lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm file.
I'm not much of a programmer, but below is the output of a diff
between the original source and my changes (in folder
BackupPC-4.0.0alpha3/lib/BackupPC/Xfer):


# diff Rsync.pm Rsync.pm-new
147c147
< "$conf->{RsyncdUserName}\@$t->{host}::$remoteDir");
---
370c370
< "$conf->{RsyncdUserName}\@$t->{host}::$shareName",
---
I hope this provides you with the necessary information to fix the
issue in your source code?

Regards,
Steven


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