Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> I wouldn't hard-wire that in because people might want different
> behaviors. If you look back in the archive, you will notice that  I
> required similar behavior to check for a volume nfs mounted on another
> server and to try to remount it if it is not mounted.

I didn't think of NFS volumes. That's another very good reason why one 
might want to check if a directory is available.


> If Craig is interested in adding this capability, my suggestion
> instead would be to make it configurable by adding it to the config.pl
> file as commands analogous to DumpPreUserCmd.  You would probably need
> two: one for the initialization subroutine and one to run during the
> main while loop.

Here is one slight variation: Reuse DumpPreUserCmd. If the command 
returns 0, proceed with the dump, otherwise 'next'. Then, I could write:

$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = 'if [ -d /my/external/disk ]; then exit 0; else 
exit 1; fi';

I your case, with NFS, you would write a script that tries to mount NFS 
and would return 0 or 1 depending on whether the mount succeeds.


What do you think?

Daniel.


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