Hi, On Fri, 02 Apr 2010, Avarca, Anthony wrote:
> I'm using bacula to backup desktop and laptop clients. The desktops work > well with a schedule, but laptops are another story. Does anyone have a > strategy to backup laptops? Is it possible to have the user trigger a > backup? It's not the prettiest thing in the world, but we get the user to trigger a backup using bconsole. Firstly, we allow console connections from the client computer to the director, strictly only for the resources which are relevant to that client. When the user decides to run a backup, 1. Start bconsole 2. Type "run<return>" 3. Type "exit<return>" 4. The messages are emailed to the user so they know when the job is finished. the default backup triggered in our case is always incremental and accurate. We then run virtual full backups on a schedule. This scheme has solved a long-term problem for us. It's a laptop for which a full backup takes over 5 hours. The user simply can't wait that long. The incremental by contrast takes about 1 hour, which is workable and he can work on it during the backup, albeit a bit slow. Gavin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
