s/Static DNS/Static DHCP/ > From: "Heitor Faria" <hei...@bacula.com.br> > To: "Andrea Brancatelli" <abrancate...@schema31.it> > Cc: "bacula-users" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 8:12:21 AM > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for Users machines
> Hello Andrea, >> 1. The scheduling - you can certainly schedule backups for a working hour >> and >> hope that the guy's is working at that moment, but hey... Is there any >> way to >> "invoke" a backup from client side (I don't know, like on system startup) >> -- >> "Hey, I'm ready, backup me!" :-) > You can schedule on the Director, and have these directives: > " Reschedule On Error = yes|no If this directive is enabled, and the job > terminates in error, the job will be rescheduled as determined by the > Reschedule Interval and Reschedule Times directives. If you cancel the job, it > will not be rescheduled. The default is no (i.e. the job will not be > rescheduled). > This specification can be useful for portables, laptops, or other machines > that > are not always connected to the network or switched on. > Reschedule Incomplete Jobs = yes|no > If this directive is enabled, and the job terminates in incomplete status, the > job will be rescheduled as determined by the Reschedule Interval and > Reschedule > Times directives. If you cancel the job, it will not be rescheduled. The > default is yes (i.e. Incomplete jobs will be rescheduled). > Reschedule Interval = time-specification If you have specified Reschedule On > Error = yes and the job terminates in error, it will be rescheduled after the > interval of time specified by time-specification . See the time specification > formatsTime in the Configure chapter for details of time specifications. If no > interval is specified, the job will not be rescheduled on error. The default > Reschedule Interval is 30 minutes (1800 seconds). > Reschedule Times = count This directive specifies the maximum number of times > to > reschedule the job. If it is set to zero (the default) the job will be > rescheduled an indefinite number of times." > [https://www.bacula.org/9.2.x-manuals/en/main/Configuring_Director.html#10256] > It will retry in case machine is not on. > Instead of all this, you could have a console in each client and/or tray > monitor > to start jobs from the Client machine, via script or user action. >> 1. The IP addresses - again one could try to fix client's IP address or >> have >> DHCP automatically update a fixed name, like desktop-jon.company.com but >> that >> seems pretty flaky. Is there any way to, maybe, update the client IP from >> client side? > You could use Static DNS which uses the MAC address to fix an IP for each > client > machine. > There is also a setip console command: > " setip Sets new client address - if authorized. > A console is authorized to use the SetIP command only if it has a Console > resource definition in both the Director and the Console. In addition, if the > console name, provided on the Name = directive, must be the same as a Client > name, the user of that console is permitted to use the SetIP command to change > the Address directive in the Director's client resource to the IP address of > the Console. This permits portables or other machines using DHCP (non-fixed IP > addresses) to "notify" the Director of their current IP address." > [https://www.bacula.org/9.0.x-manuals/en/console/Bacula_Console.html] >> Is it totally unfeasible to use Bacula in such scenario? > It is possible, go for it. >> Thanks in advance > Regards, >> -- >> Andrea Brancatelli >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- > MSc Heitor Faria > CEO Bacula LATAM > mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 > mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 > [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] > [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] > América Latina > [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | > bacula.com.br ] -- MSc Heitor Faria CEO Bacula LATAM mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 [ https://www.linkedin.com/in/msc-heitor-faria-5ba51b3 ] [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ ] América Latina [ http://bacula.lat/ | bacula.lat ] | [ http://www.bacula.com.br/ | bacula.com.br ]
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