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/