Lindenberg Software Backup integrates with Lights-Out of AxoNet (version 2 and up), which adds a number of nice features to Backup and greatly enhances the user experience:
- Lindenberg Software Backup integrates with backup monitoring on client and server, preventing that either of them is suspended or the like during a running backup involving that client or server
- Lindenberg Software Backup can reuse the count down from Lights-Out after a backup to save energy on the client (this is supported with Lights-Out 1.x as well, triggering the final action of that client)
- If Lindenberg Software Backup is selected as the backup solution to use for a client, then Lights-Out can trigger backups via the tray icon of Lights-Out on the client or via the client commands or calendar of the Lights-Out server
- Lindenberg Software Backup can leverage the certificates provided by Lights-Out, see also Server Certificates, thereby establishing trust.
- Starting with Lights-Out 3.0, Lindenberg Software Backup communicates the disk being backed up to Lights-Out where it is shown as configuration.
- Starting with 1.5, Lindenberg Software Backup replicates schedule information from Lights-Out to wake up server(s) and to trigger backup on clients even in case Lights-Out is not available. Note that wakeup information of clients is not replicated but based on client configuration. In fact, any calendar based on iCalendar could be used if replicated in the correct location and if it uses the same conventions than Lights-Out. Apart from interpreting these conventions, the only Lights-Out specific functionality is that Lindenberg Software Backup is preconfigured to pick up that specific schedule and replicate it in case Lights-Out server and Lindenberg Software Backup are running on different systems.
The most typical scenario will be that backup clients are also Lights-Out clients, and that the Lights-Out server is also the backup server, but this is not enforced. In particular the monitoring features are independent of any client/server relation.
The following table shows the communication supported between
Lindenberg Software Backup and Lights-Out:
| Lights-Out Client | Lights-Out Server |
| Backup Client | | | ✔ | keeps server alive in case Backup Client on server does a backup no matter what destination. |
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| Backup Server | | ✔ | not supported. Instead you can configure a remote pipe to an additional Lights-Out server. This allows to separate Backup Server and Lights-Out-Server but still have a consistent status on Lights-Out-Server. |
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