How about a "run before job"? You can poll for the laptop and release the backup job when it is connected.
/Jens > Got a couple of laptop users (on MAC-assigned IP addresses). Trouble is, > when they are not in the office I get a backup failed. all the desktops > back up at 1am, but the laptop users happen at midday so they are likely > to be in. > > Question is - is there a way for either the laptop to initiate the > backup, or at least for bacula *not* to report "could not connect to > host" errors for those fds. > > > -- > Tom Newton > > SmoothWall Limited > 1 John Charles Way > Leeds > LS12 6QA > United Kingdom > > www.smoothwall.net > Phone: +44-(0)870 1 999 500 > DDI: +44-(0)113 38 74 166 > Fax: +44-(0)870 1 991 399 > > This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to > the > intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or > published by any means without the express permission of SmoothWall > Limited. > Any views expressed in this message are solely those of the author. > See: > http://www.smoothwall.net/emailnotice.html for the full text of this > notice. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
