On Wednesday 09 July 2014 14:12:23 Stefan G. Weichinger did opine And Gene did reply: > Am 09.07.2014 17:13, schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Wednesday 09 July 2014 10:17:03 Stefan G. Weichinger did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> Would anyone mind sharing some real world scripts he uses with > >> amanda? > >> > >> I think of stopping/starting DBs or something like that. > >> > >> I would appreciate some good templates ;-) > >> > >> Thanks, Stefan > > > > I've been using GenesAmandaHelper-0.61 (on my web page, see sig) for > > several years, but it doesn't address those points. Its an amanda > > wrapper in a bash script. What it does, is facilitate a bare metal > > recovery to the exact state of the last backup, by appending a copy > > of amanda's database stuff and configuration directories to the end > > of the current backup after amanda is finished, or as separate files > > if using vtapes on a separate hard drive like I've been doing for > > years. One could even add to it, the amanda home dir where I build > > it for the install, so that the complete amanda src/install tree is > > available. I just never got around to doing that. > > Not what I asked for, you know. I want to get rid of some > wrapper-constructions by using the amanda script API ... > This MUST be a wrapper, as it has things to do that cannot be done until after amanda has finished.
> Aside from that, feel free to post the exact URL pointing to your > script, I wasn't able to spot it on your site right now (not mentioned > on the top page). Maybe someone wants to have a look and somehow adapt > it to use with the script api. I thought I had put it in Genes-os9-stf, sort of a catchall, but on looking, I hadn't. Sorry I wasted your time. And I probably won't given the attitude of the other person who looked at it & complained that it was not system agnostic but needed configured. All I can say is that it works very well for me, giving me the ability to restore a newly formatted drive to last nights backup state if I have to. But I haven't had to, modern drives seem to give enough warning of impending failure that I haven't had to. > Stefan Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS
