It sounds like a good idea to me. Unfortunately I can't tell you if it's a reasonable thing to ask for or not. But the suggestion has my vote.
-Rob Simon Avery wrote: > Hi. > > Debian Etch and 2.1.2.6 > > I'm not convinced this is a sensible thing to ask, but worth a try... > > I'd like to scan for viruses on our company LAN periodically, in > addition to a resident guard program. This has historically found bad > things in caches before they've been run. > > I have been using AVG on each Windows client but the free version > doesn't allow useful scheduling, only "once per day every day" and as > it's very intrusive causes much unrest from my users who suddenly find > their computers crawling. > > So - would it be possible to scan the backups as they are made using > BackupPC? Possibly during the "link" phase after a successful backup. > > I know I could run clam(d)scan on the backup directories but this would > cause huge duplication and would take twice forever so is there scope > for a clever addition to BackupPC which calls a program for each "new" > file that's added to the pool, such as clam(d)scan? > > If it returns an error code, then that would be emailed to the admin > along with the filename, path and computer it came from so I could run a > full scan. > > Benefits: (To me at least!) > Clients don't get any additional disk access or cpu usage beyond a > normal backup. > No virus re-scanning of files that haven't changed. > No increase of backup duration if done afterward during link. > > Drawbacks: > Increase of cpu usage on server. > > > Is this a good idea, has it been done already, is it beyond the scope of > BackupPC's remit or am I barking? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
