A company called RTDA makes a product called VOV that we use to do job queuing to a farm of PCs. As I understand it, all this does is pass a string from a master queue control to slave daemons running on the PCs and each daemon launches what is passed to it. It's not secure, but with a little work that idea could be expanded on. Ernie > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joi Ellis > Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:02 PM > To: Shakaib Sayyid > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: run a DB shutdown before backup > > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Shakaib Sayyid wrote: > > >Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:52:30 -0400 (EDT) > >From: Shakaib Sayyid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: run a DB shutdown before backup > > > > > >Is there any way I can run a shutdown script before the amanda > >backup start and run a start script once the backup is done. > > > >This is to backup FoxPro Db that we are running on one of our > >Amanda clients. > > Sounds like this is on a windows box. I don't think there's any way > (presently) for amanda to trigger a script on a windows box. (It's > possible on a unix box.) The best thing you can probably do is use > something like NT's "at" thingy to run the shutdown command shortly > before amdump starts, and again to run the startup command X hours > later. > > Does anyone have a better suggestion? > > -- > Joi Ellis > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/ > >
