Today I publish my script to do daily backups on a BackupPC Server http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ on workstations which are not online all the time. BackupPC is normally used to do daily backups from servers, but this is a problem for workstations which are normally offline on backup times like 3:00AM (I heard people sleep during this time (wired)).
Therefore there are some solutions:
- Disable automatically backup in BackupPC and make in manually by clicking on the backup button in the webinterface
- Turn on the workstations in the night with wake-on-lan and power them off after the backup is done. This was my solution before i wrote this script which is also not so easy for example: whats do you do when somebody is working on the workstation after backup is finished. You can’t turn them off, but you can try đ
- Use my script which can be used in a cronjob to run every minute, add it to the startup script, run it only at a given time and many more
What will the script do?
It starts the backup process on the BackupPC server as a ssh command, checks the backup state, save the last backup time to avoid to often backups and stores a pid so it run as singleton
Preparation for BackupPC:
- Configure the workstations in BackupPC like a normal server
- Test the backup
- Disable the automatically backup “BackupsDisable=1”
- Done
Where to find the script?
Indeed on github đ https://github.com/wefixit-AT/backupPCworkstationScript
I hope this will help others to, comments are welcome