On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:00:59PM -0800, Kevin Dalley enlightened us:
> Some machines which I back up are occasionally put to sleep.  I have a
> few options:
> 
> I could try hard to keep the machines from going to sleep, but any
> user can put some of the machines to sleep.
> 
> I could ignore the problem, and skip backing up machines which are
> asleep.
> 
> I could use wakeonlan to wake up all of the machines which are subject
> to narcolepsy. My cron job could easily run wakeonlan for all of the
> machines before amdump starts.  This will usually make the estimates
> run correctly. The dump itself may fail if the machines automatically
> sleep. Both dump and estimate are subject to failure if people put the
> machine to sleep, but this is probably less of a worry.
> 
> Does amanda have a method of automatically running wakeonlan, or the
> equivalent?  What do other people do?

Most people would either make it part of their cron job, or use a wrapper:

http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-wrapper.html

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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