You could try make your wakeup schedule more dense and for this laptop
remove all blackout periods.
Like consider waking up every 15 minutes for the hours that the laptop is
most probable to appear.
On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 22:58, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> My company has a laptop that spends
--On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 3:47 PM -0600 Les Mikesell
wrote:
I think the perfect world example would be if there was a client you
could run so the computer could inform the server when it's up, perhaps
via a REST interface.
Why can't the user log into the web interface and start the
Honestly, why back it up at all? Nothing changed. If it’s off the shelf for
that short of time, it’s not got anything on it that’s not somewhere else.
Now, the update argument is real.
Thanks,
Greg Harris
On Jan 31, 2023, at 4:47 PM, Les Mikesell
mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 3:36 PM Richard Shaw wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> I think the
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 2:58 PM Kenneth Porter
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
It’s a canary. The day it’s not in your email is the day you start to sweat
about Backuppc.
Thanks,
Greg Harris
> On Jan 31, 2023, at 3:55 PM, Kenneth Porter 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
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
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
