Tyler J. Wagner napsal(a): > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:41 +0100, Pavel Hofman wrote: >> Thanks a lot for your suggestion. In fact we use the PreDumpUserCmd to >> lock the backed-up machines to disable shutdown while the backup is in >> progress. You are right, it will work. Though IMHO it is an "unpretty" >> workaround :-) , especially because the PreDumpUserCmd does not support >> multiple commands and everything must but put to scripts instead. > > You can put multiple command in. Here is mine, which sends a passive OS > dialog using kdialog (which works fine with Gnome too) to tell the users > that a backup is starting.: > > $sshPath -q -x -l root $host su `/bin/echo $user | /bin/sed 's/@.*//'` > -c "/usr/bin/kdialog --display :0 --title \"BackupPC on backuppc.local\" > --passivepopup \"Beginning $type backup on $client at `/bin/date +'%Y-% > m-%d %T %Z'`\"" > > If you can pipe, you can &&. > > Regards, > Tyler
Tyler, Thanks for your help. Your setup still runs only one command on the backuppc server - ssh with params. In the same way I could run bash -c "multiple commands" but figuring out all the doublequotes and backslahes takes a lot of trying and is not pretty. The source code says something about accepting perl code in that config parameter but I did not figure out how it works. Still, using PreDumpUserCmd for graceful shutdown is a clever but "unpretty" workaround :-) Regards, Pavel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
