Some of my target hosts go to sleep during a backup. These are laptops, and the user closes the lid and goes home. When that happens, rsync (the backup method I use) isn't killed. Therefore the BackupPC server never registers this as a network interruption and I must wait for that backup process to time out before it is marked as a failure.
Has anyone solved this? I can think of two solutions: 1. On the clients that might sleep, write a script that is added to the stuff that is run prior to software suspend. Have it kill the running rsync. Thus the server is warned that the connection was shut down. 2. Have the server ping the client every 60 seconds or so as a backup is running. If the pings don't respond for 5 minutes in a row or something, stop the backup. The reason this is an issue is because I've set only one backup at a time, as most laptop users are on wireless and I cannot have too many backup processes run at once. Regards, Tyler -- "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -- Clarence Darrow ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
