Automated distributed backups for laptops
This document will describe the setup I made for automating the backup tasks for all laptops here in the house. My servers use the same backup server and infrastructure, but right now they don't have the checks and scripts because they are online 24/7 and my backup server is triggering the backup process. This is however not true at all for the laptops.
Laptops can be at different places, powered down, suspended, put to sleep etc. So I needed a different approach for them.
Besides those things, all laptops get their IP address from DHCP, so triggering the backup from my server was not an option, since the clients IPs are unknown.
The idea I had was that each laptop should trigger the backup process. This has to be something that happens automagically, because if it's not, users forget to backup. (I know I forget).
What better place to handle this than the boot process?
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