If you'd like, this would be great content to post on the wiki: http://wiki.bacula.org
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 9/5/2013 7:17 PM, Steve Ellis wrote: > My bacula installation supports night-time backups of several Windows machines > (win7 and xp) that are typically suspended when the backups start from a > Linux-based server. I made sure to enable Wake-on-LAN on all of the windows > clients, and arranged a script to wake them, but Windows often believes that > the machine is idle during a backup and the machines used to go down during a > backup. > > I updated my python script to run a daemon process for each machine to keep > them awake during backup, it is relatively short so I'm including it here, on > the off-chance that it proves helpful to anyone--I'm happy to answer any > questions about it. It is dependent on a library daemon.py (note: not the > pending daemon PEP), that I downloaded here: > http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/02/a_simple_unix_linux_daemon_in_python , > but I believe this github implementation would also probably work: > https://github.com/stackd/daemon-py > > Note that the script does require your host->MAC address mapping, since the > machines may be down, you can't just ARP for them (I use a python dictionary, > but this could be extended to a db for those with larger sites--especially if > you already track MAC addresses). To make a Windows machine do WoL, you > likely will have to both configure WoL in the BIOS and also make a config > change in windows on the LAN interface to enable WoL. > > Here's how I use my script in my bacula-dir.conf: > RunBeforeJob = "/etc/bacula/wake_up.py --daemon start %c" > RunAfterJob = "/etc/bacula/wake_up.py --daemon stop %c" > > I don't recall if this assumes that the hostname and the client name are the > same, I suspect it does. > > -se > > -- > > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety > deserve neither liberty nor safety. > > --Benjamin Franklin, 1759 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
