Joe writes:

> The way the precopy script works is that it dumps all the database to a
> directory in the /home partition. This directory is then backedup.
> So if the precopy script launches for /home, finishes
> tar starts for /home
> precopy for /srv/www starts in parallel with tar /home
> 
> That is when I get the problem. That is why it isn't always there, it
> depends on the speed of the tar/database dump
> 
> Is this what is happening?

Yes, this sounds plausible.

> If so I could add and if statement to precopy to only dump the database
> for /home. Is that correct?

Yes - the precopy should only create data for the share that
is about to be backed up.

> In this same line I suppose that postcopy will also get executed for
> each share.

Yes.

Craig

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