Johan Ehnberg wrote at about 22:35:19 +0200 on Sunday, December 21, 2008:
 > 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
 > 
As I wrote on my initial post, I use:
   bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup <hostname>
I assume that is pretty much what you have above.

 > 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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