RE: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request - Message to user of machine being backed up

[Brown, W. A. \(GE Healthcare\) <Mat...@me...>]

Ya, I see what you mean.

You could send a "winpopup" message via smbclient.  The client must be =
listening, tho.

- Wade



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Wade -=20

Good point, but if I am not reading my email, and the computer starts =
going
crazy, I need a message that pops up right then. I think that the pre =
command
might be able to do that, however, using the smbclient command.

I will play with it and see what I come up with.

Thanks -=20

Mark

Quoting "Brown, Wade ASL (GE Healthcare)" <Mat...@me...>:

> BackupPC has a pre and post backupup command.  Use that to issue an =
email.
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> - Wade
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> [mailto:bac...@li...]On Behalf Of
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> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 9:27 AM
> To: bac...@li...
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request - Message to user of machine
> being backed up
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> Hello -=20
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> I am using BackupPC at the library where I work with great success - =
it has
> solved many problems for me.
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> However -=20
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> This morning, I was working on my PC, and I noticed that the hard =
drive was
> working like mad, and the systray network traffic indicator was =
solidly on
> all
> the time. I could not for the life of me figure out what process was =
running
> so
> hard, and I thought I might have picked up a virus.=20
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> It was, of course, BackupPC doing its job.=20
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> Do you suppose that BackupPC could be taught to send an SMB messaage =
to the
> PC
> that it is going to backup, and maybe periodically during the backup, =
so that
> a
> user will not become alarmed at all the HD and network activity?
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> Just an idea.
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> Mark Ehle
> Computer Support Librarian
> Willard Public Library
> Battle Creek, MI
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