Backing up a moble laptop using Enterprise Backup 7.2

Thanks for your reply Hrvoje.

I have created a 'quick and dirty' batch file that runs on the laptop when the user signs on. It checks to see if a datestamp file has today's date. If it doesn't, then it runs a SAVEFS on a particular filesystem. If it does, then it ends.

I would like something that is on the server end rather than the client.

What I was looking for is that when the laptop is connected to the network, the Networker server would see it (maybe by running a schedule of every hour or so) and if it locates one that needs backing up would run whatever group is scheduled for that day.

What I would do is:
- group all laptop clients to some input file and one NW group
- query with mminfo for last successful backup and its level for all clients from input
- ping those identified for backup and if response is there believe those are online (I would prefer rpcinfo -t or nsradmin query more due to many other reasons, but ping is simple and quick)
- run backup from server by calling group with -c for each client we wish to backup

No, but with newer versions you can run reports to see when the last backup was done and have it backed up. EBA will do the same too (but backup is still something you must trigger).

What you ask, as complete solution, can be easily scripted.

I already do something that for systems that do not have the local batch file installed, but it's good to see that i'm on the right track.

Ideally, this would all be automatic.

Example of the 'ping check'

:: pingip.bat
@echo off

for /f "tokens=*" %%I in (IPlist.txt) do call :pinger %%I
goto :eof

:pinger

:: echo %TIME% >> pingLOG.txt
ping -n 1 %1 >> pingLOG.txt
:: DONE

The systems that require backup are exported to a txt file 'IPlist.txt' and the batch file run to ping one time and append the pinglog.txt with the result.

Still, no other ideas??