Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 16:54:48 +0200 on Friday, December 19, 2008:
>  > 
>  > > Do you need anything more than the following one-liner to initiate a 
> backup
>  > >    ssh backuppc@backuppcserver 
> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg ba\
>  > > ckup $hostname
>  > > 
>  > > or similar variants using other server messages or the raw program, 
> BackupPC_dump
>  > 
>  > That server message does not exist in 3.0.0 nor in 3.1.0, and that's 
>  > part of the challenge. Using dump works but is bad for scheduling and 
>  > requires automatic backups to be disabled and scheduling handled by the 
>  > client.
> 
> It is in 3.1.0 at least - I use it all the time.

I have now checked a 3.0.0 debian package, the recent 3.1.0 bpo debian 
package as well as the ChangeLog of the official 3.1.0 release and can't 
find this documented nor working from the command line. I've even 
skimmed through the code of the official 3.1.0 one installation and seen 
no such functionality (however, I can't say I would write perl myself).

Can you tell me how you got it? Which package are you using? Or vanilla 
install from sf.net? I'd like to make use of it.

Or did you mean the full form which forces a backup?:
BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER 0/1

The kind of functionality that would be of use is a "smart" queuing 
command which makes use of scheduling information etc.

/johan

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