> > Is there something I can add to the config that will allow the director, > or client to sense that the other has come on-line, and trigger a backup? > very often users take their laptops home, and can miss multiple backups. > Some sort of on-line trigger would be a great help.
On of the projects voted on recently was for a way for the FD to initiate a backup. I think it did pretty well in the voting, but I may be wrong. Either way, it doesn't exist yet and so doesn't help you if you want a solution now. Alternatively have a look at the following section of the manual: "http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Bacula_Console.html#SECTION002280000000000 000000" (hope that comes through okay with line wrapping etc. You should be able to run the backup this way either as part of a startup script on the laptop, or from a more sophisticated script on the director (maybe using 'expect'?) that can do a 'status client=' based on a schedule (eg 15 minutely?) until such time as it gets a valid response, at which point the backup will run. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
