Christian Völker wrote:

> I've installed BackupPC 3.x and it looks like it runs fine  :)
> I'm backing up approx. 20 Linux machines.
>
> Some of them needs some special task to performed before the backup
> (i.e. database servers).
> I haven't figured out how to perform this.
>
> On my old backup scripts I had some scripts on each server which  
> created
> a dump of the databases before backup.
>
> I found now some configuration settings
> $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = undef;
> $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} = undef;
> $Conf{DumpPreShareCmd} = undef;
> $Conf{DumpPostShareCmd} = undef;
>
> But these look like these commands are executed before _each_ share to
> be backed up. But most of my hosts don't need a script to be  
> executed...
>
> Would the solution be to creat a local script which cover special  
> needs
> for each hosts like a case $3...statement?
>
> Or is there another idea how to perform database backups?

You can set those settings in the host-specific configuration. We use  
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} to run a script to dump databases before a host  
is backed up.

Nils Breunese.
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