On Thursday 27 January 2005 08:59, Claus Rosenberger wrote:
>hi,
>
>as the response at this mailinglist i set up a script now which do
> some pre stuff then start the backup and do some post stuff after
> the backup. but the besser way would be an integration of these
> scripts into the backup process because the logfiles will be at one
> single place.
>
>the solution could be two parameters in amanda.conf, i.e.
>prescript=/path/to/script and postscript=/path/to/script
>
>if the script returns 0 the process will be continued, all stdout
> will be logged into the central logfile of the backup job.
>
>regards
>
>claus

I've found its best to do the pre and post stuff seperate from amanda, 
as when amanda is running, it has a few file locks and those files 
cannot be backed up by amanda so you lose the most vital info of the 
backup, what is it and where is it.  My method works without this 
limitation.  In my case the only 'pre' is a run of amcheck just so 
the rest of my script's are looking at the correct tape as obtained 
from the tapelist.  My post consists of tarballing up the config and 
indice containing dirs, and appending them to the end of the tape 
after making sure the tapetype is set small enough to leave room on 
the tape for them.   In this manner the exact config and a truely 
uptodate indice of all the tapes in the tapelist, is right on the end 
of the tape.  In my case thats about another 375 megs.  On disk its a 
<shrug>, on tape you'll need to compensate because they really are 
fixed length.  To recover, I play those last two files back with dd 
into tar, and the rest of it can be fairly automatic from there.

At least thats the theory, practice occasionally differs as we all 
know so well. :-)

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