On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Bill Moran might have said: > In response to Paul Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi alll, > > I have the need to backup a laptop that is connected to the network at > > irregular intervals, which precludes any form of scheduling. > > > > Does anyone have a means of backing up at, say an hour after logging into > > the > > network, or of connecting to the server. > > > > I have a user who is frequently away from the network and never leaves the > > laptop connected to the network overnight. Therefore I need to stimulate > > the > > backup automatically without the users intervention or mine. > > > > The laptop runs windoze, so I need the means of triggering a script, etc. > > I've managed to work around this with clever scheduling. By setting > reschedule on error to 1 hour, setting the backup to start at 9:00 AM > and setting the system to reschedule 9 times, we get most of our mobile > users most of the time that they are in. > > The upshot is that it tries to initiate a backup every hour between 9:00 > AM and 6:00 PM. > > Not the perfect solution, but it's working OK for us.
What about putting something like an rsync in the laptop's login.bat of the roaming profile? When the laptop connects the data is copied to a machine on the network that is backed up regularly with bacula? Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
