Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 07:37:19 +0000 on Thursday, November 12, 2009: > The "try every hour" method works just fine for me, even for users that only > come in once a month. > > But if you really want to have the client initiate the backup, the easiest > way > I can think of is to write a script that uses curl or wget to press the > "start > incremental backup" button as the user: > > curl -u user:password > http://bacckupserver/backuppc/index.cgi?host=hostname.example.com&hostIP=hostname.example.com&doit=1&action=Start_Incr_Backup >
How is that easier than just sending the single line: BackupPC_serverMsg backup HOSTIP HOST 0/1 You will need to have ssh connection or vpn anyway if you are remote. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
