I know you can use wrappers for doing similar things on the amanda client (when the client != server) but I've never quite gotten that down correctly and I'm looking to start/stop a database on an amanda client so the files are quiessed during the dump.
What is the right way to handle surounding tasks on the amanda-client ? (A brief example if someone doesn't mind too much...)
Here is an untested example.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Getopt::Long qw(:config pass_through);
$result = GetOptions (
'directory=s' => \$dir,
'file=s' => \$file,
);$post = 0;
if ($dir eq '/my/special_dir' && $file ne '/dev/null') {
system '/usr/bin/dbshut thedb >/tmp/amanda/dbshut.debug 2>&1';
# avoid output to stdout!!! stdout fd = the backup image
# msgs on stderr will be flagged as "strange" in amreport
# so you could leave out the 2>&1
$post = 1;
}# put all options we processed back unshift(@ARGV, '--directory', $dir); unshift(@ARGV, '--file', $file;
# now put the real gnutar program in front unshift(@ARGV, "/usr/local/bin/gtar");
system @ARGV ; # and run it
if ($post) { # need postprocessing?
system '/usr/bin/dbstart thedb >/tmp/amanda/dbstart.debug 2>&1';
}
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