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Hi Colin,
Nice idea :)
I'm guessing if I can use the web interface just to "see" backups (or to
download some file). I'll give that approach a try.
Cheers, Ibon.
Abrazo, Ibon.
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El 16/12/14 a las 11:51, Colin Shorts escribió:
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> On 16/12/14 10:31, Ibon Castilla wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to execute some actions, right before
> doing a backup. What I want to do is to backup a remote host (not in
> the LAN) and to achieve so I have a VPN tunnel set up. My ideal
> scenario would be: 1) before anything else connect to the tunnel, 2)
> then backup the host, 3) after successful backup close the tunnel.
>> Why not do this outside of backuppc's web interface?
>> * Disable backuppc for the host.
>> * Create a script to run as a cron job for the *backuppc* user that;
>> 1. creates the vpn tunnel
>> 2. runs backuppc for the host
>> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup <hostname>
>> <hostname> backuppc <0|1>
>> In the last argument, 0=incremental, 1=full
>> 3. check for the job finishing and then close the tunnel
>> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg 'status
>> host(<hostname>)'
>> Parse the output of above as required and exit when "state" =>
>> "Status_idle"
>> It's not official, but it should work fine.
>
>> NOTE: the backup script should be called as the backuppc user or
>> breakage may occur.
>
>> -Colin
>
>
> Cheers, Ibon.
>
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