Hi, On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> We do this in a somewhat manual way. The client computer has a bconsole > configured. When the laptop owner wants a backup, they start bconsole, > then type "run<ret>", "yes<ret>", "quit<yes">. They then get a > confirmation email when the backup completes. I should probably spell out exactly what we do: - configure a console on the director specifically for that laptop - configure a corresponding bconsole on the laptop - create ACLs for that console to access only the job, pool, devices, etc. that relate to it - set the default backup to incremental for that job (assuming that's what you want) so that's what runs immediately - configure a monthly virtual full backup to consolidate the incrementals into a new full backup and allow you to rotate the volumes - configure a dedicated messages entry on the director for this job so that the user gets a copy of the backup confirmation This has worked really well for us. It would be nice of course if a backup could magically start on plugin, but then if the user unplugs shortly afterward, you get a broken backup so we kind of feel that the owner deciding to run a backup is not a bad thing. A nice GUI console client for Windows would perhaps be an improvement but the console commands are so simple that it's easy enough to just write these steps up. Gavin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users