Could it be someone's responsibility to fire the machine up at a specific time on a specific day each week, for at least a couple of hours? The thing is, a rarely-on machine presents other challenges, not least of which is the difficulty of keeping the OS and apps updated. Making sure those things are done would also provide an opportunity for backuppc to do its work.
Robert Trevellyan On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 3:58 PM Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com> wrote: > My company has a laptop that spends most of its time on a shelf, not in > use. So I'm constantly seeing a daily BackupPC alert in my email that > the machine hasn't been backed up recently. > > How do others deal with this situation, with machines that are rarely > connected to the LAN for backup? > > An additional problem is that the machine might only be connected for a > short period, so the server might miss that window and fail to back it > in the short period it's connected, as it's busy with other backups. > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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