On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:

All in all, it sounds like a lot of work, unless this is a months-long
conference :)

Which is why it would be really nice to have a different triggering method
for performing backups on roaming laptops.  Something that begins with the
laptop calling in to the server and saying "Yoo-hoo!  I'm over here.  Can
you please back me up now?"  Then the server can do the backup to holding
disk and then flush to tape next time a regular scheduled <config> run is
made.

-Mitch