Arcserve 2000 - need to issue WOL to client agent machines 1

[barrybyrne]

Am using Arcserve 2000 with Client agents on XP desktops and would like to have the backup server issue a wake up on lan command prior to backing up the client, so the machines could be powered off prior to backup. Anyone done this or have any pointers. Would rather do this for each individual client rather than wake up everything before the backup job starts.

Thanks for any pointers.

- Barry

 

[jfrantz]

Barry,

Although I don't use Wake-On-LAN with ARCserve, the following should work if you just run a batch file prior to the backup job using the "Pre/Post" tab on the job options.

First, download WOL.EXE from:

http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm#wol

Now create a text file called macs.txt
The file should contain the MAC addresses of the machines you wish to power up.

002324ab3723
002324ab3742

Now, create a batch file called wake.bat and have the following in the file:

@echo off
for /f %%I in (macs.txt) do (
  wol.exe %%I
)

When you call "wake.bat" from ARCserve, it should wake all of your machines.

To be sure that all the machines have had a chance to boot, you may want to change the "Enter the time to wait before the job starts" delay time to one or two minutes. The delay time is located on the "Pre/Post" tab in the job options.

-Jeff

 

[barrybyrne]

Jeff:

Thanks for the input - I had thought of doing it this way, but was really hoping I could have the server wake up each machine just in time for it's backup, rather than wake them all up before the job, as the backup takes most of the weekend. My current thought is to maybe write a script to tail the log file from arcserve monitoring for a connection attempt to the client machine and then issue the wakeup call from there.

Thanks again for your thoughts.

- Barry

 

[GSC]

Didn't really have any arcserve problems but your batch file worked like a dream for another issue that I had.
Thanks a lot!!

Cheers,

GSC