OK, maybe I'm being dense, but I can't find it, and am hoping for some
explicit guidance.
The examples of using wrappers assume you are backing up with tar and
involve recompiling amanda using "--with-gnutar=..."
I see no comparable option "--with-dump=...", nor any examples with
dump. In particular, I want to run ufsdump on Solaris 9 systems from a
snapshot created with fssnap. I figure that as a special case for
databases, I will use gnutar on a database dump file, so I'll need a
separate wrapper for that. Also, I'm assuming this is something that
applies to the client build, but is irrelevant to the server build. And,
do I need to (or can I) do anything special for ufsrestore?
I imagine that, in principle, I could move ufsdump and replace it with a
script that calls the original. But, then, these systems become unstable
with respect to patch updates. I will always have to be looking out for
the modified ufsdump. I've done similar sorts of things before, and it's
not ideal, especially when an admin moves on or forgets that this has to
be checked every time, but also if the system has interdependencies that
expect ufsdump to be in it's original place.
What I'd really like is to have that sort of thing in the amanda.conf.
So, for example, I could have a dumptype corresponding to Solaris
systems with snapshot capabilities, and it would specify the wrapper
script. Or, alternatively, a dumptype for databases that would specify a
different wrapper script. I do understand that is a little more
complicated than it sounds, because it is the client that needs to do
the substitution, but it is the server that has the amanda.conf, the
DLE's, and does the scheduling.
Setting that aside, what I need now is some explanation of how to
approach this with the existing software. I'm using 2.5.1p2 on Solaris 9.
TIA
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