Hi,
I'm running a bacula director and storage daemon on a Gentoo Linux
system at home (version 1.38.8). I've also installed a file daemon on
one of my Windows XP workstations (version 1.38.8). Bacula is properly
configured to backup this workstation, which works great by the way.
Only, when this Windows workstation is powered off, after 40 minutes I
get an error report from Bacula telling me that it could not reach the
client's file daemon and that it canceled the job. I was wondering if
there's a possibility to wait for an unlimited amount of time for the
workstation, without blocking other jobs to be run in the meantime?
Then, when you would power on the Windows workstation, it would begin a
backup at that moment.
At work I'm using Retrospect in a similar setup since we have many
portables. Whenever one of our employees connects its portable into the
network, and when no backup has been executed for the last 24 hours, a
backup is automatically started. It also has a nice feature to pop up a
notification that stays open for 20 seconds, which allows to defer the
backup for an amount of time from the client side.
I've searched in the manuals and found a "Max Wait Time" property (and
resp property for Incremental and Differential backup), but setting them
doesn't seem to have any effect. I still get the error mail after 40
minutes.
I've included the settings for the job below:
Job {
name = "avathar-3200"
Enabled = yes
JobDefs = "WindowsClientDefs"
Client = avathar-fd
FileSet = "avathar-3200"
# Wait a maximum of 23 hours
Max Wait Time = 82800
Incremental Max Wait Time = 82800
Differential Max Wait Time = 82800
Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/Avathar3200.bsr"
}
Another possibility would be to wake up the client using ether-wake. You
could ping the workstation to see if it's online... wake it up when it's
not... make a backup... and power it down again. This way the backup
would be guaranteed to run each day. Has anybody done a successful job
at setting up something like this?
thanks,
Dimitri
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