How to shutdown bareos server after last backup?

[Udo Claushues]

Hi,

I use bareos for my backup at home.

To save energy, i'd like to shutdown the server after the backup of the bareos catalog (last job).

How can i shutdown the server?

When i add this RunAfterJob command in bareos-dir.conf:

RunAfterJob = "/sbin/poweroff"

I get the following error: ... AfterJob: shutdown: Need to be root

[Philipp Storz]

Hello,

On 15.12.2015 22:38, Udo Claushues wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I use bareos for my backup at home.
>
> To save energy, i'd like to shutdown the server after the backup of the bareos catalog (last job).
>
> How can i shutdown the server?
>
> When i add this RunAfterJob command in bareos-dir.conf:
>
> RunAfterJob = "/sbin/poweroff"

This is executed by the director, and that runs as user bareos.

Try
"Client Run After Job"

as this is executed by the fd and it runs as root.

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>
> I get the following error: ... AfterJob: shutdown: Need to be root
>
>
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[Stephan Dühr]

On 12/16/2015 09:25 AM, Philipp Storz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 15.12.2015 22:38, Udo Claushues wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use bareos for my backup at home.
>>
>> To save energy, i'd like to shutdown the server after the backup of the bareos catalog (last job).
>>
>> How can i shutdown the server?
>>
>> When i add this RunAfterJob command in bareos-dir.conf:
>>
>> RunAfterJob = "/sbin/poweroff"
>
> This is executed by the director, and that runs as user bareos.
>
> Try
> "Client Run After Job"
>
> as this is executed by the fd and it runs as root.
>

yes, and if the system is using systemd, I'd rather delay it by one minute
by using

Client Run After Job = "sh -c '/sbin/shutdown --poweroff +1'"

because systemd is doing the shutdown quite harshly and you'd get
errors when doing an immediate poweroff.

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>> I get the following error: ... AfterJob: shutdown: Need to be root
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>


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[Udo Claushues]

Hi Stephan and hi Phillip,

many thanks for your help.

I've added:

Client Run After Job = "sh -c '/sbin/shutdown -h +1'"

to the backup-catalog job in bareos-dir.conf

And it works perfectly.

Now i can start the backupserver by the RTC (Bios) and it will shutdown when the last job is finished. Absolutely brilliant!

Greetings

Udo

[Bruno Friedmann]

You're tryng to run the command on the server, -dir and so use bareos user account.

Try the same but with the configuration run on client (you normally have a -fd configured
also on the server).
Most of the time the -fd run as root so your command will be executed.
I would always let 5 to 10 minutes after the last backup to be sure
all activity has settle down.

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