At the client i must enter the hostname of the backupserver into the hosts file - why Bareos don't use FQDN?

[Samuel Marischek]

Hello all,

we use here bareos 17.2 on UCS 4.4. At the clients (Ubuntu 18.04) we must enter the hostname of the bareosserver in the hostsfile. Where i can set that the FQDN is used and not only the hostname. So for example:

This entry must exists in  the /etc/hosts on every client:

bareos 192.168.2.9

But the server is reachabel on bareos.supertux.lan. So where i can say to the bareos server he should use the fqdn.

Thanks :)

[Jörg Steffens]

On 27.08.19 at 15:33 wrote Samuel Marischek:

The Bareos Director tells the client on which storage server it should
place its backups.

I assume, your file
/etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/storage/File.conf
contains the line:
Address = bareos

Change it to
Address = bareos.supertux.lan

and it should work as expected.

I will check if we can set the FQDN by default on future versions of
Bareos on UCS. Unfortunately it is not always easy/reliable to get the
FQDN for all environments/distributions.

Regards,
Jörg

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[Samuel Marischek]

Thank you Jörg,

found it and replaced it :)

Best Regards