Pavel Hofman <pavel.hofman AT ivitera DOT com> wrote [10:42am +0200]

   PH > Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago napsal(a):
   PH > > 
   PH > > I just don't use PingCmd for this particular cases as it is the first 
   PH > > thing BackupPC runs. So if I turn off the virtual machine BackupPC 
would 
   PH > > try to ping the virtual machine and find out it's unreachable so it 
will 
   PH > > never begin the backup. And viceversa.
   PH > 
   PH > This is how we turn machines on via WOL before backing up:
   PH > 
   PH > config.pl:
   PH > $Conf{PingPath} = "/etc/backuppc/bin/wolping.sh";
   PH > [...]
   PH > This setup has been working ok for a few years.
   PH > 
   PH > Regards,
   PH > 
   PH > Pavel.
   PH > 

Interesting approach. But I guess this only works on physical machines. 
AFAIK, virtual machines doesn't have "Wakeup On LAN" feature.

Regards,


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