Noel,
You can break the process into two steps:
1. Run a cron job which will run the pre-script, copy /db1
to a staging location, and then run the post-script.
2. Have amanda backup the staging area, instead of /db1.
Amanda likes to come up with it's own schedule for efficiency
reasons, so I find it easiest to just decouple the snapshot
from the backup on moving filesystems.
Nick
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Nick Russo email: nick AT cs.uchicago DOT edu phone: 773.702.3438
Computer Science Department The University of Chicago
Associate Director of Computing Systems, Systems Lead
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Noel Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am experimenting with Amanda on our database servers and have discovered
> that we backing up our databases is proving to be a challenge using Amanda.
> Specifically, we need to be able to run some pre/post script before/after
> backing up certain filesystems within a backup session e.g.
>
> if I have the following:
>
> /db1
> /
> /usr
> /var
> etc
>
> I want to be able to run a pre script before /db1 and a post script after
> /db1, then continue backing up the rest of the filesystems in order.
>
> Also, Amanda seems to backup the filesystems according to its own order
> instead of the order listed in the config file.
>
> Is there or will there be a feature that will incorporate pre/post scripts
> per filesystems and also allow a specific order fo filesystems dump.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Noel Paul
> Lead Unix Administrator
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