If you'd like, this would be great content to post on the wiki:
http://wiki.bacula.org
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On 9/5/2013 7:17 PM, Steve Ellis wrote:
> My bacula installation supports night-time backups of several Windows machines
> (win7 and xp) that are typically suspended when the backups start from a
> Linux-based server. I made sure to enable Wake-on-LAN on all of the windows
> clients, and arranged a script to wake them, but Windows often believes that
> the machine is idle during a backup and the machines used to go down during a
> backup.
>
> I updated my python script to run a daemon process for each machine to keep
> them awake during backup, it is relatively short so I'm including it here, on
> the off-chance that it proves helpful to anyone--I'm happy to answer any
> questions about it. It is dependent on a library daemon.py (note: not the
> pending daemon PEP), that I downloaded here:
> http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/02/a_simple_unix_linux_daemon_in_python ,
> but I believe this github implementation would also probably work:
> https://github.com/stackd/daemon-py
>
> Note that the script does require your host->MAC address mapping, since the
> machines may be down, you can't just ARP for them (I use a python dictionary,
> but this could be extended to a db for those with larger sites--especially if
> you already track MAC addresses). To make a Windows machine do WoL, you
> likely will have to both configure WoL in the BIOS and also make a config
> change in windows on the LAN interface to enable WoL.
>
> Here's how I use my script in my bacula-dir.conf:
> RunBeforeJob = "/etc/bacula/wake_up.py --daemon start %c"
> RunAfterJob = "/etc/bacula/wake_up.py --daemon stop %c"
>
> I don't recall if this assumes that the hostname and the client name are the
> same, I suspect it does.
>
> -se
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