On 2006-06-01 15:18, Francis Galiegue wrote:

In fact I'm not asking for such a fine grained setup. I'd be perfectly happy with only a way to have amandad run scripts before and after backing up only, whatever the number of DLEs. At least, that's my need: a wrapper over amandad, not gtar.

For instance, you could have two directories /etc/amandad/before (note the "d") and /etc/amandad/after with scripts named 00stoporacle, 01stopmysql, whatever.

I have seen people add this shellscript to crontab to
run the amanda dumps:

   #!/bin/sh
   ssh oracle AT host1.example DOT com /usr/local/bin/stopdb
   amdump daily
   ssh oracle AT host1.example DOT com /usr/local/bin/startdb

With an approriate set of private/public keys to avoid password prompts
of course.

But I agree in general that before/after scripts more built into
amanda would be welcome.


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