[BackupPC-users] Backing up laptop as available
I was wondering if there was a way to make backuppc backup laptops as the become available on the network. I don't want it to be dependent on the user (I saw something about users starting the process themselves using Unison). If there is no such thing, I could of course set a schedule for when certain laptops are in the office. But it would not be consistent. Thanks! - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up laptop as available
You could just setup an aggressive wake up schedule, and adjust the black out schedule for those clients accordingly, of course it would fail every time the wake up schedule tried to backup that client. You can set it to wake up every 15 minutes if you want by doing 13.25, 13.50, 13.75 etc... On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to make backuppc backup laptops as the become available on the network. I don't want it to be dependent on the user (I saw something about users starting the process themselves using Unison). If there is no such thing, I could of course set a schedule for when certain laptops are in the office. But it would not be consistent. Thanks! - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Calvin Coolidge - I have never been hurt by what I have not said. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up laptop as available
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to make backuppc backup laptops as the become available on the network. I thought about the same procedure and as an enhancement backup Laptops when they are connected via (Open-)VPN. While I had not enough time to explore this in detail a solution for your problem might be: 1) Check if your client-laptop has a certain IP 2) connects to the BackupPC-server vis SSH and request a backup from the command line (I think there is an option to make BackupPC starting a backup from the command line) Assuming that your laptops are running Windows, you can use this batch file to run command based on the IP the client-PC has. You could run this script in taskplaner or start it when after you made a connection to network. IBM Access Connections offers this feature. - - 8 - - @echo off :: for error tracking, you should set echo on :: This Script can be found at (german language): :: http://www.supportnet.de/fresh/2005/12/id1211340.asp IPCONFIG | FINDSTR IP-Adress ip.tmp FOR /F tokens=2,3,4 delims=:. %%a IN (ip.tmp) DO SET SubNet=%%a.%%b.%%c DEL ip.tmp IF %SubNet% == 192.168.178 GOTO F1 IF %SubNet% == 192.168.2 GOTO F2 GOTO ERR :F1 :: Assuming that Subnet 192.168.178.* is your company address ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMMAND-TO-START-BACKUP-OF-CLIENT GOTO END :F2 :: Assuming that subnet 192.168.2.* is another subnet echo ANOTHER COMMAND THAT SHOULD BE RUN, IN THIS SUBNET GOTO END :ERR echo There has been an error, or your client is in another subnet. GOTO END :END pause :: You can also delete the line above - Kurt - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up laptop as available
mark k wrote:
You could just setup an aggressive wake up schedule, and adjust the
black out schedule for those clients accordingly, of course it would
fail every time the wake up schedule tried to backup that client. You
can set it to wake up every 15 minutes if you want by doing 13.25,
13.50, 13.75 etc...
The blackout schedule only takes effect after PCs have been determined
to be available outside of it for several days. For intermittently
connected laptops that may be never. If they are DHCP-addressed, you
need to include the network ranges to search in $Conf{DHCPAddressRanges}.
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