Oops.  I misread the position of the wrapper.

Since the wrapper described on
http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-wrapper.html runs on the client, the
wrapper won't work if the client is asleep.

Kevin Dalley <kevin AT kelphead DOT org> writes:

> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> A wrapper (or part of the cron job) only handles part of the problem.
>
> If the machine has a timeout, say 1 hour, then either solution will
> allow the estimate to be performed, but the backup itself may fail if
> it is more than 1 hour between the estimate and the backup.
>
> Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu> writes:
>
>> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Matt Hyclak
>> Department of Mathematics 
>> Department of Social Work
>> Ohio University
>> (740) 593-1263
>>
>
> -- 
> Kevin Dalley
> kevin AT kelphead DOT org
>

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