[Bacula-users] laptop users

2006-04-20 Thread Tom Newton
Got a couple of laptop users (on MAC-assigned IP addresses). Trouble is, when they are not in the office I get a backup failed. all the desktops back up at 1am, but the laptop users happen at midday so they are likely to be in. Question is - is there a way for either the laptop to initiate the bac

[Bacula-users] RE: Re: [Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-users] laptop users

2006-04-18 Thread Jens R . Victorin
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:26 +0200, Jens R. Victorin wrote: > > That sounds like a decent start - but the laptop may not be back for > days, by which time I have a big backlog of jobs :-/ > Well! There's nothing stopping you from implementing some logic in the script :-) or you could perhaps m

Re: [Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-users] laptop users

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Newton
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:26 +0200, Jens R. Victorin wrote: That sounds like a decent start - but the laptop may not be back for days, by which time I have a big backlog of jobs :-/ > How about a "run before job"? You can poll for the laptop and release the > backup job when it is connected. >

Re: [Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-users] laptop users

2006-04-18 Thread Ryan Novosielski
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Re: [Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-users] laptop users

2006-04-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Apr 2006 at 16:26, Jens R. Victorin wrote: > How about a "run before job"? You can poll for the laptop and release > the backup job when it is connected. That will work only if more than one job can run at a time. If not, you'll have all other jobs waiting until that laptop is connected

[Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-users] laptop users

2006-04-18 Thread Jens R . Victorin
How about a "run before job"? You can poll for the laptop and release the backup job when it is connected. /Jens > Got a couple of laptop users (on MAC-assigned IP addresses). Trouble is, > when they are not in the office I get a backup failed. all the desktops > back up at 1am, but the lapt

[Bacula-users] laptop users

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Newton
Got a couple of laptop users (on MAC-assigned IP addresses). Trouble is, when they are not in the office I get a backup failed. all the desktops back up at 1am, but the laptop users happen at midday so they are likely to be in. Question is - is there a way for either the laptop to initiate the bac