On Friday 06 April 2007 12:56, Armijn Hemel wrote: > hi Kern, Hello,
I see you survived FOSDEM. > > at our office we have a few workstations which we would like to backup > regularly to a backup server. I'd love to use Bacula for that, but there > is one issue: I can't tell in advance if the machines are on or not. So, > I was wondering if I could somehow "push" a request to the Bacula director > to instruct it to back up the machine right now. I would launch such a > script during shutdown of the machine. > > Is this possible? Yes. It involves writing a script that uses bconsole to contact the director and possibly set an IP address with setip and then start the appropriate job. This has been discussed a number of times on the list lately -- you might check the archives. If you have any problems, I recommend you ask the bacula-users list. They are much better than I am at these kinds of tricks and providing quick responses. Among other things, I'm into DEVICE and DCR structures with multiple jobs, multiple volumes and their volume structures, use counts and contention problems :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
