problems setting up Back Up Linux And Windows Systems With BackupPC

[cruz]

I went to enter this command

nmblookup server1

I got the result of

querying server1 on 192.168.1.255
name_query failed to find name server1

How do I get this to show what the tutorial is showing so I can finish configuring this application for backing up my server?

[falko]

Did you set up the hostname correctly? What's the output of

hostname

and

hostname -f

? What's in /etc/hosts? Which distribution do you use?

[cruz]

I setup the same setup as is on the mail server. I used Debian perfect setup. But I used server2.backup.com. I get server2.backup.com when I enter those commands you gave me. The main server is server1.mysite4webhosting.com. I get that if I enter the commands you asked to enter.

[falko]

Does

nmblookup server2

work?

[cruz]

Here is the result from the command you asked about.

server2:~# nmblookup server2
querying server2 on 192.168.1.255
name_query failed to find name server2

[falko]

Hm, I have no idea what's wrong...

[cruz]

Can you recommend a backup that is easy to setup that I can install? I wish there was one that did the database and the files all in one program and was easy to restore if I ever need to. I have Debian perfect setup on both servers. The full install. Thanks for your input.

[falko]

Ghost4Linux and SystemImager are easy to use. And they do bitwise backups, so if you lose data, you can simply restore the image.

[jackren]

hello,
I have same problem , I was trying to set up backuppc whit howto here on howtoforge but
nmblookup command cannot find my linux pc's only the windows pc.

I have a small server with debian ectch on which I installed backuppc and want to store the backups, I have 2 linux pc's with sidux(debian sid) and one pc with winXP in my lan, which all needed to be backedup with backuppc.

jacksbox3:~# nmblookup jacksbox1
querying jacksbox1 on 192.168.1.255
name_query failed to find name jacksbox1

ps on my server also runs samba-server
and I add the IP s and hostnames of the different pc's in the /etc/hosts files.

what can be the problem?

[falko]

Might be a firewall problem...