[Server-devel] ds-backup.py backup_url server check

[Dave Bauer]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:

> When the client references "schoolserver", it depends on client
> configuration where and if it finds it.  Places that can affect this lookup
> process are the configuration designating what is your DNS server, the
> configuration of your resolver (e.g. does it supply a default domain if the
> requested name is not fully qualified.  So if your local domain is
> configured to be "mydom.com", schoolserver.mydom.com might be the actual
> name that is looked up.  Finally if you have an /etc/hosts file you can
> supply a local name for an arbitrary IP address, so you could have a line
> there that gave "192.0.2.1 schoolserver"
>
> If your "schoolserver" is not named schoolserver in your same domain, just
> add an /etc/host entry.
>

Hi, yes i can connect to the XS at http://schoolserver, ping schoolserver
etc. It does look like its configured correctly. The SoaS is getting a DHCP
address from the XS.

Thanks

Dave


>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have updated my XS to the lastest code and I have the ds-backup server
>> code on there.
>> I have ds-backup-client on my client (slightly modified SoaS).
>>
>> Now I am investigating how this works and I am reviewing ds-backup.py to
>> see why my backups are not working.
>>
>> I am looking around line 114 and I see this
>>
>>    backup_url = 'http://schoolserver/backup/1'
>>
>> I see that the serial number from the client is appended to this.
>>
>> I don't see anything on the XS that responds on this URL. Should this
>> respond or do I have the wrong version of this script or I am confused?
>> If something should respond on this URL, is it part of Moodle, ds-backup
>> server or something else?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dave
>>
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Dave Bauer
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