Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 07:37:19 +0000 on Thursday, November 12, 2009:
> The "try every hour" method works just fine for me, even for users that only
> come in once a month.
>
> But if you really want to have the client initiate the backup, the easiest
> way
> I can think of is to write a script that uses curl or wget to press the
> "start
> incremental backup" button as the user:
>
> curl -u user:password
>http://bacckupserver/backuppc/index.cgi?host=hostname.example.com&hostIP=hostname.example.com&doit=1&action=Start_Incr_Backup
>
How is that easier than just sending the single line:
BackupPC_serverMsg backup HOSTIP HOST 0/1
You will need to have ssh connection or vpn anyway if you are
remote.
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