On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:15:30PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> If we had such a tool, I could run an estimate phase in advance of the 
> regular run and be in a position to reboot to the older kernel ahead of 
> time instead of totally screwing with the amanda database.

I'm not sure that is the most compelling use-case! ;)

That said, it's always useful to be able to decompose operations for
debugging purposes.  At this point, the system is not factored in such a
way as to make that break a clean one.  I can think of ways to
accomplish something *like* what you're asking, but they're all hacks
that would be harder than 

  if [ $(ssh mybox uname -r) == "2.6.foo.bar" ]
  then
    echo "Please reboot mybox" | page_gene
  fi

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/