Thanks for all the input. This is a bit too simple because it does not check anything like if there's a job running or some other bconsole session running and so on.
I wrote something, maybe it's useful for others. It's available via subversion from here: http://svn.tuebingen.mpg.de/stark/admin/scripts/trigger_bacula.sh -Sebastian On Thursday 07 July 2005 16:17, Phil Stracchino wrote: > 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 -- Sebastian Stark -- http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/~stark Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
