On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:41 +0100, Pavel Hofman wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your suggestion. In fact we use the PreDumpUserCmd to
> lock the backed-up machines to disable shutdown while the backup is in
> progress. You are right, it will work. Though IMHO it is an "unpretty"
> workaround :-) , especially because the PreDumpUserCmd does not support
> multiple commands and everything must but put to scripts instead.

You can put multiple command in. Here is mine, which sends a passive OS
dialog using kdialog (which works fine with Gnome too) to tell the users
that a backup is starting.:

$sshPath -q -x -l root $host su `/bin/echo $user | /bin/sed 's/@.*//'`
-c "/usr/bin/kdialog --display :0 --title \"BackupPC on backuppc.local\"
--passivepopup \"Beginning $type backup on $client  at `/bin/date +'%Y-%
m-%d %T %Z'`\""

If you can pipe, you can &&.

Regards,
Tyler

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