Kevin Dalley wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion.
A wrapper (or part of the cron job) only handles part of the problem.
If the machine has a timeout, say 1 hour, then either solution will
allow the estimate to be performed, but the backup itself may fail if
it is more than 1 hour between the
Thanks for the suggestion.
A wrapper (or part of the cron job) only handles part of the problem.
If the machine has a timeout, say 1 hour, then either solution will
allow the estimate to be performed, but the backup itself may fail if
it is more than 1 hour between the estimate and the backup.
Oops. I misread the position of the wrapper.
Since the wrapper described on
http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-wrapper.html runs on the client, the
wrapper won't work if the client is asleep.
Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for the suggestion.
A wrapper (or part of the cron job)
Some machines which I back up are occasionally put to sleep. I have a
few options:
I could try hard to keep the machines from going to sleep, but any
user can put some of the machines to sleep.
I could ignore the problem, and skip backing up machines which are
asleep.
I could use wakeonlan to
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:00:59PM -0800, Kevin Dalley enlightened us:
Some machines which I back up are occasionally put to sleep. I have a
few options:
I could try hard to keep the machines from going to sleep, but any
user can put some of the machines to sleep.
I could ignore the
--On November 10, 2005 6:00:59 PM -0800 Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Does amanda have a method of automatically running wakeonlan, or the
equivalent? What do other people do?
I don't backup desktops/workstations. There's a central fileserver
available for things that people
