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Change of remote ip address

Asked by Sven Eriksson

Hello,

First of all: thanks to everyone working/contributing to BIT for this excellent software.

Now to the question:

I use BIT 1.0.28 with a remote server accessed via ssh. I have recently moved my server such that it now has a new IP-address.
After this change of address, when I start backintime-gnome, BIT tries to contact the server on the old address, which of course fails. However, after acknowledging the information that the server cannot be reached, the BIT gnome interface is shutdown.

Since I cannot get into the gnome interface now, how can I update BIT with the information on the new IP address where it can find the server with the backups?

I have searched the man page for backintime, the questions forum on Launchpad and Dan's web page without finding any info.

Kind regards,

Sven

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Best Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Hi Sven,

please run 'nano ~/.config/backintime/config' and edit the line 'profile1.snapshots.ssh.host'. Press CTRL+O to save and CTRL+X to exit.
I'll have a look if I can make BIT keep up if this happens so next time you could enter settings again.

Regards,
Germar

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Sven Eriksson (eriksson-sven3) said : 		#2

Thanks Germar!

I should have realised to look in the config, but I was too sure that there would be a way through the GUI.

I suppose in the long run, if we aim to be the Ubuntu default alternative, it would be good to be able to get into the GUI also for such a case.

On a side note, this is such a nice project, perhaps I should try to contribute some small code snippet to it.
What would be the proper place to ask if I can try to add something to avoid someone is already working on it?

Regards,

Sven

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Sven Eriksson (eriksson-sven3) said : 		#3

Thanks Germar, that solved my question.

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Germar (germar) said : 		#4

Hi Sven,
I already made BIT to keep running if mount failed (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bit-team/backintime/trunk/revision/902). It will show two error messages for now (ping failed and snapshot path not found). Maybe I'll fix that later.

That's good news :-) ! I think the correct way would be to add a blueprint and discuss about it before start coding. But I haven't done that yet.
If you want to fix a bug you could just assign the bug to your self and set it's status to 'in progress' to indicate that you're working on it.
When you're done you should push your changes into a new branch and make a merge request.

Regards,
Germar