On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:00:59PM -0800, Kevin Dalley enlightened us: > Some machines which I back up are occasionally put to sleep. I have a > few options: > > I could try hard to keep the machines from going to sleep, but any > user can put some of the machines to sleep. > > I could ignore the problem, and skip backing up machines which are > asleep. > > I could use wakeonlan to wake up all of the machines which are subject > to narcolepsy. My cron job could easily run wakeonlan for all of the > machines before amdump starts. This will usually make the estimates > run correctly. The dump itself may fail if the machines automatically > sleep. Both dump and estimate are subject to failure if people put the > machine to sleep, but this is probably less of a worry. > > Does amanda have a method of automatically running wakeonlan, or the > equivalent? What do other people do?
Most people would either make it part of their cron job, or use a wrapper: http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-wrapper.html Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
