Hello,

It's better to run backup in the night instead if you are not using 
laptops (that is, on wifi or moving out of site physically). Most 
not-very-old computers support Wake On LAN today. You can schedule a 
"send wakeup" event, say, 10 minutes before the backup starts, and you 
might also want to include the "shutdown workstation" after the backup.

Backup "at windows shutdown" needs "client-side initiated" backup; it 
has been discussed here but as I understand one cannot use it so far.

Alex

Grzegorz Marszałek wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've got following problem with by bacula setup - I need to backup  
> user desktops (running windows xp - pro, home, some vista is there  
> either), so I scheduled backup just before end of work. It fine, BUT -  
> unfortunately users are turning off computers during backup :(
>
> So question is - is there any way do delay shutdown process till  
> backup ends? Or - as a alternative - maybe backup at windows shutdown  
> (launching some scripts at shutdown AND delaying shutdown process till  
> script ends)?
>
> I rather cannot do backup at startup (more than 300GB to backup when  
> full backup is performed - and people here need to work at the  
> morning...), or during work (againg: 300GB at full, and this could  
> change a lot during backup).
>
> Any ideas? Somebody tried somethink like this? I'd appreciate all  
> help :)
> ---
> Grzegorz Marszałek
> graf0 AT post DOT pl
>
>
>   


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