On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:54:58AM +0200, Bert_De_Ridder AT peopleware DOT be 
wrote:
> 
> My question : Isn't it possible to have more control over the process; 
> say, restart Notes as soon as all its files (as indicated in the 
> configuration) are backed up so that the Notes appserver can already be 
> restarted while the 'rest' of the backup is still running ?
> I want to get rid of this 'intermediate' file system copy of the lotus 
> files to another location prior to running the backup. 
> However, I want to restart the notes appserver as soon as possible.
> 

I can think of two solutions:

- running Amanda with a fake version of gnutar.
  This means to configure Amanda to use e.g. /usr/local/bin/amtar
  amtar is a shell script which stops notes, runs tar and starts notes again.

- Configure Linux with LVM and use snapshots. 

  Ciao
     Dietmar

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