Nick Smith wrote:
> Thanks for the response, it looks pretty good, but i have one problem
> that maybe you can help me with.
> I already use the pre/post commands to launch scripts that do volume
> shadows on my windows servers
> for backup.  Every time i try to have 2 pre or post commands the
> latter doesnt work. ive tried the normal
> linux way of & or && but that doesnt work, commas dont work either.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get 2 post commands to run in order?
> 
> When i first started looking at getting the emails working i tried the
> post command and never could get
> it to work with 2 commands. and like i said before, the post command
> will run whether or not the backup
> actually completed successfully or failed.  your script looks like it
> will filter well for me, i just have to figure
> out how to get it to run on a post command when there already is one,
> OR try to integrate it into my existing
> setup.

Backuppc doesn't use a shell to parse external commands so you can't use 
shell syntax there.  Just create a separate shell script that does all 
the steps you need and run that as your pre/post command.  Within that 
script you can run the others.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com




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