>I'd like client hosts to do things like shut down database servers before
>backup, and then restart them after backup.
This will be handled much better when the DUMPER-API is available.
For now, the traditional hack is to use --with-gnutar and point that at
a script on the client that does the pre and post steps around whatever
Amanda is really asking.
I wrote up such a script quite a while ago:
ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtar-wrapper.README
ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtar-wrapper.ksh
>Patrick
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
