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 -- "An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one." -- George Mikes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
