Quck & nasty solution:
Can the remote server be 'pinged' ?
Put a ping in you cron job and use its failure to display a 'Failure Message' (This is the bit that need to be turned into the 'System Tray Icon')
The cron job could loop once per hour (or so) to retry until the Backup Server is running.
Ok I can have a look at that.
I think I have 'pings' are disabled, I will have a look at my 'smoothwall' firewall , if I could set it to accept pings from her laptop only .
I did not know 'Cron' could be set in a loop.
Spend more time tonight, tile grouting at the moment
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