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, log
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
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.
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: