[ale] User training

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:14 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> I see a lot benefit turning them off:  power consumption reduced, AC
> usage reduced, etc. How about running the backup during biz hours so
> to allow users to turn off their computers EOB? Or do something like
> 'anacron' ?

Actually the best solution is to use the "boot on net request" method.
Most modern machines support it. Then all I need to do is run a pre-
backup script that boots the box, backup, post backup script to power
off the box.

The backup process is sufficiently hard drive intensive enough to impact
daily use.
> 
> On 6/10/05, Fletch <fletch at phydeaux.org> wrote:
>         >>>>> "James" == James P Kinney, <James> writes:
>         
>         [...]
>         
>             James> My monitoring email box is slowly filling up with
>         error
>             James> notices since they all TURNED OFF THEIR MACHINES AS
>         THEY 
>             James> LEFT!!!
>         
>         Down, not across.</a.s.r>
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