On 2006-06-01 12:40, Francis Galiegue wrote:

Hello,

I have a problem here which I solve for now the "bad" way. I want to do a cold backup of several Oracle databases, which means that the instances have to be stopped. So, via cron, I stop them a full half hour before the backup begins and restart them approximately one hour after the backup has completed.

There is NO Oracle client on the server and I don't plan to install one.

So, my question would be: is there a way to tell amdump to execute one or several scripts just before the backup begins (and of course, wait that these scripts complete)?

An ugly method is to use a so-called wrapper, explained here:

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backup_client#pre_and_post-_backup_scripts_.28wrappers.29


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