First, I am very much a novice at bash scripting, so bare with me as I
learn by doing.
I found Salik Rafiq's blog
(http://blog.chameeya.com/2011/08/backuppc-and-waking-machines.html)
about waking his client machines with WOL and it worked perfectly. (I
believe I may have posted that fact recently and failed to give Salik
credit, sorry about that.)
But, here are the recent changes. I placed my 'wolping.sh' in
/usr/local/bin. This was done per Michael Stowe's suggestion on this
forum. Thank you, Michael. I then gave it 'chmod 750 [filename]'
permissions and 'chown backuppc:www-data' ownership.
Then, as per Salik Rafiq's blog, remove the "NmbLookupFindHostCmd"
string under the 'Backup Settings' tab of the _server_ config file.
Then, via the 'Server' tab, changed the "PingPath" to
/usr/local/bin/wolping.sh.
This sufficiently wakes all my Linux client machines (that have already
been setup to WOL. Check your distro for instructions.)
Now, shutting down clients after BackupPC has completed that client's
backup (whether it was incremental or full backup.) I have a small four
computer household. Of the four (as of today) I only want to shutdown
one of them after the client backup has completed. So, I simply placed
'/usr/local/bin/shutdown.sh' into the client config file line
"DumpPostUserCmd". That shutdown script is: "ssh -T root@[my client
static IP address] /sbin/shutdown -h now >/dev/null" (minus the
quotation marks, of course.)
I now know that I can WOL a client and shut it down when the backup has
completed. Now, time to refine and simplify my shutdown script. I have
to study the manpage of ssh to see if "-T" means the same as the
">/dev/null" term at the end of the string. If I don't need both then . . .
I am sure someone will have some thoughts and opinions?
--
Robert Wooden
Nashville, TN. USA
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