Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 07:37:19 +0000 on Thursday, November 12, 2009:
 > The "try every hour" method works just fine for me, even for users that only 
 > come in once a month.
 > 
 > But if you really want to have the client initiate the backup, the easiest 
 > way 
 > I can think of is to write a script that uses curl or wget to press the 
 > "start 
 > incremental backup" button as the user:
 > 
 > curl -u user:password 
 > http://bacckupserver/backuppc/index.cgi?host=hostname.example.com&hostIP=hostname.example.com&doit=1&action=Start_Incr_Backup
 > 

How is that easier than just sending the single line:
BackupPC_serverMsg backup HOSTIP HOST 0/1

You will need to have ssh connection or vpn anyway if you are
remote.


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