On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:26 +0200, Jens R. Victorin wrote:

That sounds like a decent start - but the laptop may not be back for
days, by which time I have a big backlog of jobs :-/

> How about a "run before job"? You can poll for the laptop and release the  
> backup job when it is connected.
> 
> /Jens  
> 
> 
> > Got a couple of laptop users (on MAC-assigned IP addresses). Trouble is,
> > when they are not in the office I get a backup failed. all the desktops
> > back up at 1am, but the laptop users happen at midday so they are likely
> > to be in.
> > 
> > Question is - is there a way for either the laptop to initiate the
> > backup, or at least for bacula *not* to report "could not connect to
> > host" errors for those fds.
> > 
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