On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:55:20PM +0200, 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.
>
> 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".
>
> Has someone ever done a script like this and already knows the pitfalls? Are
> there better ways?
There is already a script to do this in the Samples directory, I
believe. Basically, all it needs to do is start a restricted console
and feed it the appropriate Run command from a file.
This is the 'backup' script I have, from the Bacula distribution:
#!/bin/sh
#
# A small script to start a Backup job from any Client machine
#
# You may need to add a full path and possibly the console.conf location
#
# Assume we are in the binary directory
#
JOB="Whitestar Save"
#
/bacula/bin/bconsole -c /bacula/bin/console.conf <<END_OF_DATA
run ${JOB}
y
quit
END_OF_DATA
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