On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:46:08PM +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote:
> 
> d) I was looking into pre-post dump actions (eg to stop a database or email 
> delivery)
>   I found the tips to write a specialized tar (amgtar) script which does 
> this.
>   My question however is whether the protocol between server and client 
> could
>   handle this, or at least handle whether a pre-post function is to be 
> called and
>   its results etc.
> 
>   I understand that security is an issue, which means that which scripts 
> are allowed to
>   run on each client should be controlled on that client itself, which 
> speaks for a
>   local amgtar.
> 
>   Does anyone already have such a script which is flexible to support 
> several pre/post
>   dump (and pre/post estimate?) scripts as well as handles errors in such 
> scripts?


Quite a while ago JRJ posted the attached readme and wrapper script.
I've not used them, just still have them available.


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gtarwrapper.README
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gtarwrapper.ksh
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