Dimitri,
Another possibility would be to wake up the client using ether-wake.
You could ping the workstation to see if it's online... wake it up
when it's not... make a backup... and power it down again. This way
the backup would be guaranteed to run each day. Has anybody done a
successful job at setting up something like this?
Yes, I have a setup like this working. I include the details below in
case this is useful to someone else.
Yours,
Chris Rodgers.
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Server: Fedora Core 4
Client: Windows XP Home (with Fast User Switching)
I used CYGWIN (http://www.cygwin.com/) for some of the client-side
scripting.
Currently, I have the PCs switch on using the BIOS clock. I also tried using
perl -MNet::Wake -e "Net::Wake::by_udp('255.255.255.255','<MAC ADDRESS
GOES HERE>',<PORT NUMBER GOES HERE>)"
in "Run Before Job".
I use the following settings in my bacula-dir.conf:
Job {
Name = "Ngorongoro"
Client = ngorongoro-fd
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
FileSet = "DocumentsAndSettings"
Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/Ngorongoro.bsr"
ClientRunAfterJob = "C:/cygwin/home/Admin/smartshutdown.bat"
}
Job {
Name = "Ngorongoro-SystemState"
Client = ngorongoro-fd
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
FileSet = "SystemState"
Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/Ngorongoro-SystemState.bsr"
ClientRunBeforeJob = "C:/cygwin/bin/backupsystemstate.bat"
Priority = 9 # Do this before all the files are sent.
}
# File set for ngorongoro
FileSet {
Name = "DocumentsAndSettings"
Enable VSS = yes
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
compression = GZIP
Exclude = yes
IgnoreCase = yes
# Exclude Mozilla-based programs' file caches
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Application
Data/*/Profiles/*/*/Cache"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Application
Data/*/Profiles/*/*/Cache.Trash"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Application
Data/*/Profiles/*/*/ImapMail"
# Exclude user's registry files - they're always in use anyway.
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Local
Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/Windows/usrclass.*"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/ntuser.*"
# Exclude directories full of lots and lots of useless little files
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Recent"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/History"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temp"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary
Internet Files"
# These are always open and unable to be backed up
#WildFile = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/Microsoft/Network/Downloader/qmgr[01].dat"
# Some random bits of Windows we want to ignore
#WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/security/logs/scepol.log"
#WildDir = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/config"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/msdownld.tmp"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/Internet Logs"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/$Nt*Uninstall*"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/sysvol"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/cluster/CLUSDB"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/cluster/CLUSDB.LOG"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/NTDS/edb.log"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/NTDS/ntds.dit"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/NTDS/temp.edb"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/ntfrs/jet/log/edb.log"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/ntfrs/jet/ntfrs.jdb"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/ntfrs/jet/temp/tmp.edb"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/CPL.CFG"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/dhcp/dhcp.mdb"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/dhcp/j50.log"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/dhcp/tmp.edb"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/LServer/edb.log"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/LServer/TLSLic.edb"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/LServer/tmp.edb"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/wins/j50.log"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/wins/wins.mdb"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/system32/wins/winstmp.mdb"
# Temporary directories & files
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/WINDOWS/Temp"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/temp"
WildFile = "*.tmp"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/tmp"
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/var/tmp"
# Recycle bins
WildDir = "[A-Z]:/RECYCLER"
# Swap files
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/pagefile.sys"
WildFile = "[A-Z]:/hiberfil.sys"
}
# Ideally, we'd back up the entire disk, but there's not enough space
for that.
File = "C:/Documents and Settings"
#File = "C:/"
}
Exclude {
File = "C:/systemstate.bkf"
}
}
# Backup the registry, etc. on windows
FileSet {
Name = "SystemState"
Enable VSS = yes
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
compression = GZIP
}
File = "C:/systemstate.bkf"
}
}
########################
On the client, I use these files to capture the windows registry and to
shut the machine down after the backup (providing that no-one is logged
on locally). These scripts use CYGWIN (from
http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe). The psshutdown.exe tool comes from
http://www.sysinternals.com/). NTbackup is provided with Windows.
$ cat smartshutdown.bat
@echo off
SET CYGWIN=ntea tty
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
bash --login C:\cygwin\home\admin\smartshutdown
exit 0
$ cat smartshutdown
#!/bin/bash
if [ `qwinsta.exe | grep -v '^>console
0 Conn wdcon' | wc -l` -lt 2 ]; then
echo "No sessions are currently active. Starting shutdown!"
cd /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32
./psshutdown.exe -c -k -t 60 -m "The system has finished its nightly
backup."
else
echo "Users are logged on - aborting shutdown!";
fi
$ cat backupsystemstate.bat
C:
cd \
del C:\systemstate.bkf
ntbackup backup systemstate /F c:\systemstate.bkf
exit 0
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