On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:48:14AM -0500, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> Is there a way of having AMANDA pass dump command line options? I've got 
> a few FreeBSD 5 boxes, and I'd like to be able to activate the 
> filesystem snapshot feature of dump.

Not built in to the system.

Generally the way this is accomplished is to replace the
backup program (dump in this case) with a wrapper script.

The script is called by amanda, then analyzes the args,
modifies them as needed and calls the real backup program.

Because this might be a possibility in the future,
I generally configure amanda to use dummy locations
for dump and tar, like /var/local/amanda/libexec/amgnutar.
I then put a copy of the real dump/gnutar at those locations.
When a wrapper is needed, say for gnutar, the wrapper becomes
amgnutar and it calls the copy of gnutar renamed amgnutar.real.

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