Ah...
Some clarification: by clients, I meant the client application, the bacula-fd
agent rather then the machines themselves, though in general if you can use
RunBeforeJob with a completely shut down system and have no problems, doing so
with just a downed agent should be no problem as well.
Thanks,
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, July 2, 2007 12:19 pm
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] start/stop client on demand
When I was having problems with downed clients causing y backups to
wait for a long time, someone suggested using RunBeforeJob to ping the
client and if it failed, to reschedule for an hour later. The
suggestion was also made to netboot the computers, back them up, and
if they were not on to begin with, shut them back down.
Hope this helps,
Kyle Marsh
On 7/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a new user to bacula and I'm trying to start
using this at work to replace the current mix of scripts that do backups (to
disk). One of the requested requirements is to leave the clients off for
as long as possible, preferably turning them on only when a job is ready to run
and then back off after completion. I think that for jobs I could make a
director script that runs before and after a job to turn on and off the client,
but I'm not sure what else would be effected by leaving the clients off all the
time. What would break if this were how things were set up? Would
the jobs even try to run if the clients were not accessible, or would the
scripts (regardless of their status as director scripts) even run?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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