Hi, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2008-12-21 22:50:46 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Client initiated backups, input wanted]: > 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: > > > > [...] > > > > 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. [...] > > > > 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>
that is indeed strange. Unless your hostname happens to be 'all', I would also not expect that to be parsed by BackupPC. 'backup hostname' does not ~ /^backup (\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)/. The special case 'all' would check all hosts for due backups, just like a regular wakeup would. I doubt that is what you really want though. > > The kind of functionality that would be of use is a "smart" queuing > > command which makes use of scheduling information etc. Limited to *one* host given as an argument, I suppose you mean. I'll see if I can find the time to work out a patch. Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/