On 18 Apr 2006 at 16:26, Jens R. Victorin wrote: > How about a "run before job"? You can poll for the laptop and release > the backup job when it is connected.
That will work only if more than one job can run at a time. If not, you'll have all other jobs waiting until that laptop is connected. > > /Jens > > > > Got a couple of laptop users (on MAC-assigned IP addresses). Trouble is, > > when they are not in the office I get a backup failed. all the desktops > > back up at 1am, but the laptop users happen at midday so they are likely > > to be in. > > > > Question is - is there a way for either the laptop to initiate the > > backup, or at least for bacula *not* to report "could not connect to > > host" errors for those fds. > > > > > > -- > > Tom Newton > > > > SmoothWall Limited > > 1 John Charles Way > > Leeds > > LS12 6QA > > United Kingdom > > > > www.smoothwall.net > > Phone: +44-(0)870 1 999 500 > > DDI: +44-(0)113 38 74 166 > > Fax: +44-(0)870 1 991 399 > > > > This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to > > the > > intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or > > published by any means without the express permission of SmoothWall > > Limited. > > Any views expressed in this message are solely those of the author. > > See: > > http://www.smoothwall.net/emailnotice.html for the full text of this > > notice. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
