Phil et al:
> one of two ways... either run a cron job to execute your Perforce checkpoint
> program on a cron job x mins before the cron job for amanda happens knowing
> that the perforce program takes x mins to complete (and of course some buffering
> wouldn't hurt) and then have the cron job for amdump run after. Or, just make
> your own shell script owned by user backup that can do both in the script for you
> and then remove the amdump cron job and have the shell script do this for you.
Run it through a shell script. You can never guarantee that a certain
command won't hit a bug or timeout indefinitely. Furthermore you can
check to see if it actually worked before running amdump (or the next
command) using the $? variable and so forth...
DL
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