On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Mark L. Chang wrote:
> I want to back up a laptop that is only sometimes on the network. I'd love
> to roll this into our main daily set since setting up a whole 'nother tape
> for this 10-20g drive is not what I feel like doing.
>
> The laptop in question is a Win98 box.
>
> My idea is to force the user to hook into the network at a predetermined
> time and backup his stuff (smbclient tar-wise) to his home directory on a
> drive that is already being backed up daily. That way, this large tar will
> get backed up and we'll be good to go.
>
> Two problems:
> 1) No decent way to do incrementals
> 2) Two-stage recovery
>
Put the laptop into your disklist...when the laptop is present, it gets
backed up. If not, the backup times out and it shows up in your nightly
mail report.
Just the first thing that popped into my head.
