Il 26/05/2011 11:00, Konstantin Khomoutov ha scritto:
> On Thu, 26 May 2011 09:23:22 +0200
> Marcello Romani<mromani AT ottotecnica DOT com>  wrote:
>
>> I'd like to share a tip about shutting down a windows client
>> after its backuò job has finished.
>> Nothing spectacular, but I guessed somebody would find it useful.
>>
>> 1) Create a batch file with a suitable name, e.g. C:\shutdown.bat
>> 2) Put this single line in it:
>>
>> shutdown -s -t 0
>>
>> which simply means halt the system (-s) and do it now (-t 0).
>>
>> Then in bacula-dir.conf on the host where bacula director runs, edit
>> the job resource of the windows client and add this line:
>>
>> ClientRunAfterJob = "C:/shutdown.bat"
>>
>> The client machine whill shutdown immediataly after the backup job
>> has finished.
>
> The batch file is not needed:
> Client Run After Job = "shutdown -r -t 30 -f&  exit /b 0"
> works just fine for us.
>
> We use -t 30 because otherwise sometimes shutdown does its job so fast,
> bacula-fd fails to report its completion which marks the whole job as
> failed.
>
> That "exit /b 0" trick is not strictly needed here but is anyway useful
> for running other commands (for instance, on Windows machines we stop
> the antivirus program before making the backup and start it
> afterwards--otherwise the performance is horrible) which for some
> reason may fail and we do not want it to fail the whole backup job as a
> consequence.

Thanks for the tips.

-- 
Marcello Romani

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