Yes, it will have the same address . I would prefer to run it from the backup server, but am open to anything that is simple. ----- "Justin Krejci" wrote: > Does the windows XP machine always have the same IP address or at least on the same subnet as the backup server when it is online? > > Can you possibly have the Windows XP host run a script automatically when it is online that will trigger the backup process? > > -----Original Message----- > From : Raymond Norton < admin at lctn.org > > Reply-to : TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > To : tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject : [tclug-list] script help > Date : Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:21:21 -0600 > Mailer : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 > > I need to come up with a shell script that will launch another script when a specific host is detected on the network. This is for an network backup system. The host is always off-line when the back up runs at the night and I want to fire the backup off when it comes back on-line. The script would run on the backup server as a cron job, and needs to call the backup script only once per day. The backup server is Linux. The host is Windows XP. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner , and is > believed to be clean. > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Raymond Norton LCTN Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110103/5c7a9aa8/attachment.htm