Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 22:35:19 +0200 on Sunday, December 21, 2008: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 16:54:48 +0200 on Friday, December 19, 2008: > > > > > > > Do you need anything more than the following one-liner to initiate a > > backup > > > > ssh backu...@backuppcserver > > /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg ba\ > > > > ckup $hostname > > > > > > > > or similar variants using other server messages or the raw program, > > BackupPC_dump > > > > > > That server message does not exist in 3.0.0 nor in 3.1.0, and that's > > > part of the challenge. Using dump works but is bad for scheduling and > > > requires automatic backups to be disabled and scheduling handled by the > > > client. > > > > It is in 3.1.0 at least - I use it all the time. > > I have now checked a 3.0.0 debian package, the recent 3.1.0 bpo debian > package as well as the ChangeLog of the official 3.1.0 release and can't > find this documented nor working from the command line. I've even > skimmed through the code of the official 3.1.0 one installation and seen > no such functionality (however, I can't say I would write perl myself). > > Can you tell me how you got it? Which package are you using? Or vanilla > install from sf.net? I'd like to make use of it. > > Or did you mean the full form which forces a backup?: > BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER 0/1 > As I wrote on my initial post, I use: bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup <hostname> I assume that is pretty much what you have above.
> The kind of functionality that would be of use is a "smart" queuing > command which makes use of scheduling information etc. > > /johan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
