RE: Feature Request - Message to user of machine being backed up

Wade - 

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 - 

Mark

Quoting "Brown, Wade ASL (GE Healthcare)" <Matthew.Brown@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> BackupPC has a pre and post backupup command.  Use that to issue an email.
> 
> - Wade
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: backuppc-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:backuppc-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 9:27 AM
> To: backuppc-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [BackupPC-users] Feature Request - Message to user of machine
> being backed up
> 
> 
> Hello - 
> 
> I am using BackupPC at the library where I work with great success - it has
> solved many problems for me.
> 
> However - 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> It was, of course, BackupPC doing its job. 
> 
> 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?
> 
> Just an idea.
> 
> Mark Ehle
> Computer Support Librarian
> Willard Public Library
> Battle Creek, MI
> 
> 
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