Paul Bijnens wrote: An example of a wrapper on the client... Set the exitcodes correct too!
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");
$rc = $? >> 8;
system @ARGV ; # and run it
if ($post) { # need postprocessing? system '/usr/bin/dbstart thedb >/tmp/amanda/dbstart.debug 2>&1'; }
exit $rc;
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