Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-15 Thread David Clymer
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:28 +0100, Richard Caley wrote: > > > Actually I have no idea why I did my script in /bin/sh, maybe I had > > > something off for lunch that day:-). > > > If you ever check perl vs sh, you'll find that perl is HUGE > > Most linux people probably have bash pretending to be

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-15 Thread Richard Caley
> > Actually I have no idea why I did my script in /bin/sh, maybe I had > > something off for lunch that day:-). > If you ever check perl vs sh, you'll find that perl is HUGE Most linux people probably have bash pretending to be /bin/sh, and a fresh perl is only about 30% bigger than a fresh bas

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-15 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Richard Caley wrote: Actually I have no idea why I did my script in /bin/sh, maybe I had something off for lunch that day:-). If you ever check perl vs sh, you'll find that perl is HUGE and takes a long time to start, compared to sh. I only switch to perl when scripts get com

RE: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-13 Thread Rick Meyer
Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client > > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham > Purcocks (gp) writes: > > gp> If perl is no use to you then, bin this. However, using shell will > gp> be more difficult IMHO. > > I think perl is p

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-13 Thread Richard Caley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham Purcocks (gp) writes: gp> If perl is no use to you then, bin this. However, using shell will gp> be more difficult IMHO. I think perl is probably the correct tool, it's horrible but available more or less everywhere. A perl module which provided access to al

RE: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-13 Thread Purcocks, Graham
$writer->print( "yes\n.quit\n" ); # flush the reader; $reader->flush(); }; if( $@ ) { die "Can't run console: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; } $reader->close(); $writer->close(); return $files; } -Original Me

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-13 Thread Emery Guevremont
r way. Rick Meyer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Caley Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:58 AM To: Emery Guevremont Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-13 Thread Richard Caley
Here is the script I use to kick of backups of not-always-there machines. It's a little hacky, but does the job for me. Some assumptions: The client foo is the bacula file demon foo-fd You want to run Differential backups of foo every day it is actually available to be backed up.

RE: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-13 Thread Rick Meyer
Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Caley > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:58 AM > To: Emery Guevremont > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows clie

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-08 Thread Ludovic Strappazon
Maybe, you should upgrade, users are happy with wx-console... Ludovic Strappazon. Emery Guevremont wrote: I'm using bacula 1.34.6 and I haven't seen any wx-console app for windows. Ludovic Strappazon wrote: Hi Emery, Did you think about using a restricted bconsole or wx-console on the client ? Y

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-08 Thread Emery Guevremont
I'm using bacula 1.34.6 and I haven't seen any wx-console app for windows. Ludovic Strappazon wrote: Hi Emery, Did you think about using a restricted bconsole or wx-console on the client ? You can adjust the rights so that any user can only use the run command for his own laptop and has nothing e

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-08 Thread Richard Caley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Emery Guevremont (eg) writes: eg> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas or experience in setting up a eg> script and/or batch file that a windows user could execute in order to eg> start a backup of their laptop. I hit this problem for laptops and for desktop Win

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

2005-04-08 Thread Ludovic Strappazon
Hi Emery, Did you think about using a restricted bconsole or wx-console on the client ? You can adjust the rights so that any user can only use the run command for his own laptop and has nothing else to do than typing "run" and "yes". http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Console_Resource.html Best regar