On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:39:03AM -0800, mbrown27 wrote:
> I basically want to run a command to "freeze" the filesystem being
> backed up then "thaw" the file system after the backup has completed.
>
> We are using networker 7.3.3 on solaris 10.
> 
> Is there an easy way to tell the runtimes programatically in a shell script?
> 
> Or even better - get networker to to issue the commands on my behalf?

Yes.  Networker has man page for 'savepnpc'.  It lets you specify a
'start' and a 'stop' script that you could use to create and destroy a
snapshot.  

Start with that man page, then let us know if you have other questions.

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