Re: [Bacula-users] Preventing users from powering down clients during backups

2024-11-21 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 11/18/24 14:46, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm asking because I'm sure I'm not the first to encounter this problem. A client is powered on, sooner or later Bacula tries a backup and it finally starts, however it does not complete because the user powers down the machine again. How d

Re: [Bacula-users] Preventing users from powering down clients during backups

2024-11-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/19/24 17:18, Josh Fisher via Bacula-users wrote: Hello. Are you sure they are powering down? Yes. I've asked the users and they confirm they power them down when they are finished with their task. there is no way to deal with the user physically powering down the machine, other t

Re: [Bacula-users] Preventing users from powering down clients during backups

2024-11-20 Thread Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users
On 2024-11-20 10:15, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 11/19/24 17:18, Josh Fisher via Bacula-users wrote: [...] If you are trying to deal with laptops that users take in and out of the office, then look into the "Reschedule On Error" directive for the Job I'm already doing this: sooner or later re

[Bacula-users] Preventing users from powering down clients during backups

2024-11-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm asking because I'm sure I'm not the first to encounter this problem. A client is powered on, sooner or later Bacula tries a backup and it finally starts, however it does not complete because the user powers down the machine again. How did you solve? Ideally Bacula would be able to