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

[Dale S. <da...@cz...>]

Brown, Wade ASL (GE Healthcare) wrote:
> BackupPC has a pre and post backupup command.  Use that to issue an email.
> 
> - Wade

You could add something like the following to these scripts to notify 
the user with a winpopup message.

add to pre script
echo "Starting backup." | smbclient -M machine_netbios_name

add to post script
echo "Backup complete." | smbclient -M machine_netbios_name