Thanks for the suggestion. A wrapper (or part of the cron job) only handles part of the problem.
If the machine has a timeout, say 1 hour, then either solution will allow the estimate to be performed, but the backup itself may fail if it is more than 1 hour between the estimate and the backup. Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
