[Dirvish] Dirvish backup controlled by client?

[Noel Kelly]

"Frank L��������������������������" wrote:

> My first idea was to give each laptop user a way to info the server about his ip and to trigger the backup process for this laptop, but until now i find no way to get this work.

Frank - perhaps what you need is a Dynamic DNS (DDNS) setup where the 
laptops automatically get added to the DNS server when they request an 
IP fro the DHCP server?  As long as you make the lease time something 
short then the records will all expire when the laptop leaves the 
network or just purge the names at the end of each day?

If they are in DNS then you can refer in your dirvish to the laptops by 
hostname and maybe have something like a script that tries to ping each 
one.  If it gets a reply then it kicks off the dirvish job?  Or just run 
dirvish-runall every hour and if the laptop is connected it gets backed 
up and if not then better luck next time?

Just an idea - not got a working model!

HTH
Noel