Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout - client off line

[Kristian Ejvind]

Excellent advice! I've been looking for an answer to this problem for a
year, but apparenty sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees.

May I suggest that this is added to the documentation?

/Kristian




On 30 jan 2006, at 12.34, Andrew Paterson wrote:

This little problem seems to come up repeatedly.



RunBeforejob = "/usr/sbin/ping <workstation>"

should do it (add any other params to ping that take your fancy.

Thus you use ping to determine your timeout.

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Subject: [Bacula-users] Timeout - client off line


Dear All


I encounter when trying to backup laptops during the day.

I would like to set the limit to 5 minutes.

To solve it simply add a RunBeforeJob that does a ping of the workstation before performing the actual job. Is there a Timeout option so that the server does not wait 30 minutes when a workstation is off line or not powered on. This is a frequent situation

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