Re: [Bacula-users] wake on lan in RunBeforeJob

[Gary D. <gar...@to...>]

On 28/06/13 03:35 PM, Wolfgang Routschka wrote:
> converted from rtf
> Hi,
> one question about starting a client for backup with bacula software 
> and wake-on-lan.
> I have configure a bacula job for backup my windows client at night. 
> To start my client I want to use wake on lan and I use the 
> RunBeforeJob-option.
> Now the problem is bacula only start the option if the bacula-daemon 
> is able to connect the client.
> Fatal error: bsock.c:138 Unable to connect to Client: win8 on 
> x.x.x.x:9102. ERR=No route to host
> Is it possbile to  start the RunBeforeJob-Option although the client 
> is not to connected?
> After Running this job I can connect to the Client.
> Greetings Wolfgang

The brute force technique is to put the wakeonlan call in crontab to run 
a few minutes before the backup job.