Re: [BackupPC-users] use BackupPC_serverMesg to set off backup of all hosts?

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes:

> Is there a way to tell backuppc to do a backup of all hosts ASAP? (i.e.
> queue all for a backup and ignore the successful pings). I've got a nagging
> feeling that it's possible with BackupPC_serverMesg; but I don't remember
> the syntax, and it's not like there's any doco for that tool outside the
> source code.

You can tell it to queue all the PCs (just like a regular wakeup)
with:

    BackupPC_serverMesg backup all

But just like a regular wakeup, each host will still be subject to
checking the period since  the last full or incremental.

To actually force a backup you need to issue a BackupPC_serverMesg
for each host, and tell it whether you want a full or incremental:

    BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER FULL

HOSTIP is the host's IP address, or can be the same as HOST if
HOST's ip address can be looked up via dns or smb.  HOST is the
host is backup.  USER is the user name requesting the backup,
and FULL is a 0 or 1 flag whether to do a full or incremental.

Craig