Déjà Dup

Computer name changed

Asked by David Doria

I have used DejaDup to backup one external drive to another external drive. I recently changed operating systems (from Fedora to Ubunutu). When I try to run the backup on the new machine, I get:

The existing backup is of a computer named daviddesktop, but the current computer's name is hit-nxdomain.opendns.com. If this is unexpected....

The computer name may have changed, but according to 'hostname' it is currently 'daviddesktop'. It seems to me like DejaDup is just getting the incorrect current hostname? Should I just continue and ignore the error?

Thanks,

David

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

It's harmless to continue, so yeah, please do that. The warning is just so that you don't accidentally back up to the same location from two different computers, which would not yield what the user wanted 99% of the time.

In your case, it's fine. The fact that the hostname is wrong, however, is interesting... I wonder how duplicity is getting the hostname.

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Hendrik Maryns (hamaryns) said : 		#2

I have this same problem after an upgrade to openSUSE 12.3, on two different computers. Clicking ‘Continue’ just shuts down DD, but does not make a back-up (AFAICT).

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