Hello Andrea, > 1. The scheduling - you can certainly schedule backups for a working hour > and > hope that the guy's is working at that moment, but hey... Is there any way > to > "invoke" a backup from client side (I don't know, like on system startup) > -- > "Hey, I'm ready, backup me!" :-)
You can schedule on the Director, and have these directives: " Reschedule On Error = yes|no If this directive is enabled, and the job terminates in error, the job will be rescheduled as determined by the Reschedule Interval and Reschedule Times directives. If you cancel the job, it will not be rescheduled. The default is no (i.e. the job will not be rescheduled). This specification can be useful for portables, laptops, or other machines that are not always connected to the network or switched on. Reschedule Incomplete Jobs = yes|no If this directive is enabled, and the job terminates in incomplete status, the job will be rescheduled as determined by the Reschedule Interval and Reschedule Times directives. If you cancel the job, it will not be rescheduled. The default is yes (i.e. Incomplete jobs will be rescheduled). Reschedule Interval = time-specification If you have specified Reschedule On Error = yes and the job terminates in error, it will be rescheduled after the interval of time specified by time-specification . See the time specification formatsTime in the Configure chapter for details of time specifications. If no interval is specified, the job will not be rescheduled on error. The default Reschedule Interval is 30 minutes (1800 seconds). Reschedule Times = count This directive specifies the maximum number of times to reschedule the job. If it is set to zero (the default) the job will be rescheduled an indefinite number of times." [https://www.bacula.org/9.2.x-manuals/en/main/Configuring_Director.html#10256] It will retry in case machine is not on. Instead of all this, you could have a console in each client and/or tray monitor to start jobs from the Client machine, via script or user action. > 1. The IP addresses - again one could try to fix client's IP address or > have > DHCP automatically update a fixed name, like desktop-jon.company.com but > that > seems pretty flaky. Is there any way to, maybe, update the client IP from > client side? You could use Static DNS which uses the MAC address to fix an IP for each client machine. There is also a setip console command: " setip Sets new client address - if authorized. A console is authorized to use the SetIP command only if it has a Console resource definition in both the Director and the Console. In addition, if the console name, provided on the Name = directive, must be the same as a Client name, the user of that console is permitted to use the SetIP command to change the Address directive in the Director's client resource to the IP address of the Console. This permits portables or other machines using DHCP (non-fixed IP addresses) to "notify" the Director of their current IP address." [https://www.bacula.org/9.0.x-manuals/en/console/Bacula_Console.html] > Is it totally unfeasible to use Bacula in such scenario? It is possible, go for it. > Thanks in advance Regards, > -- > Andrea Brancatelli > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- MSc Heitor Faria CEO Bacula LATAM mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | bacula.com.br ]
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