Re: Preventing users from powering down clients during backups

On 11/19/24 17:18, Josh Fisher via Bacula-users wrote:

Hello.



> Are you sure they are powering down?

Yes.
I've asked the users and they confirm they power them down when they are 
finished with their task.

> there is no 
> way to deal with the user physically powering down the machine, other 
> than telling them not to do that.

Exactly! But how do they know a backup is running?
I can only ask the user to delay poweroff if a backup is running; I 
cannot require all PCs to be always on.



> If you are trying to deal with laptops that users take in and out of the 
> office, then look into the "Reschedule On Error" directive for the Job 

I'm already doing this: sooner or later rescheduling will find each 
client up, but this is useless if it's powered down again before the job 
finishes.



> In the user workstation case I've mostly dealt with it by NOT backing up 
> user machines. :)

Well... if I could have my way...
All my "old" customers keep data only on the servers and PCs are not 
backed up.
Transitioning a new customer to this model will probably take years, as 
it's a matter of mentatly.


  bye & Thanks
	av.