Hello,
Sebastian Stark wrote:
I want to write a script that laptop users can run to trigger a backup of
their laptop. Scheduling does not work for them because the laptops are
connected to the net very irregularly.
Typical problem...
The idea is to plug the ethernet, log in to the backup server and run
"backupmylaptop" or something. My first approach would be to have something
with the suid-bit set that pipes the command "run client=myclient
level=incremental".
This would be one solution.
If you use SMB shares, you might even trigger the backup by logging in -
you could add that function to the logon script. This would have the
advantage that no actin would be required of your users. I would make
sure that backups are only run at least 12 hours or something after the
last one, though.
The most complete solution could be to schedule all the notebook backups
as usual, but using a run before script that checks if the notebooks are
available - that's what I do with my notebook.
Has someone ever done a script like this and already knows the pitfalls? Are
there better ways?
Whatever works for you...
Arno
Thanks,
Sebastian
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