Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Sebastian Stark
Thanks for all the input. This is a bit too simple because it does not check anything like if there's a job running or some other bconsole session running and so on. I wrote something, maybe it's useful for others. It's available via subversion from here: http://svn.tuebingen.mpg.de/stark/a

Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Phil Stracchino wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:12:08PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: If you use SMB shares, you might even trigger the backup by logging in - you could add that function to the logon script. This would have the advantage that no actin would be required of your users. Howeve

Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:12:08PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: > If you use SMB shares, you might even trigger the backup by logging in - > you could add that function to the logon script. This would have the > advantage that no actin would be required of your users. However, remote users logging

Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Sebastian Stark wrote: > > I want to write a script that laptop users can run to trigger a backup of > their laptop. Scheduling does not work for them because the laptops are > connected to the net very irregularly. > > The idea is to plug the ethernet,

Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Sebastian Stark wrote: I want to write a script that laptop users can run to trigger a backup of their laptop. Scheduling does not work for them because the laptops are connected to the net very irregularly. Typical problem... The idea is to plug the ethernet, log in to the backup se

[Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Sebastian Stark
I want to write a script that laptop users can run to trigger a backup of their laptop. Scheduling does not work for them because the laptops are connected to the net very irregularly. The idea is to plug the ethernet, log in to the backup server and run "backupmylaptop" or something. My first