Re: [Bacula-users] Making backups with FIFOs -- in theory

2008-10-30 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 30.10.2008 04:47, Dan Langille wrote: SZÉKELYI Szabolcs wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the ability to use FIFOs to produce the data to be backed up is a nice feature of Bacula, however, I don't really understand how this can work reliably. I understand the

Re: [Bacula-users] Making backups with FIFOs -- in theory

2008-10-30 Thread SZÉKELYI Szabolcs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arno Lehmann wrote: 30.10.2008 04:47, Dan Langille wrote: SZÉKELYI Szabolcs wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the ability to use FIFOs to produce the data to be backed up is a nice feature of Bacula, however, I don't

Re: [Bacula-users] Making backups with FIFOs -- in theory

2008-10-30 Thread Shad L. Lords
Arno Lehmann wrote: 30.10.2008 04:47, Dan Langille wrote: SZÉKELYI Szabolcs wrote: I understand the concept, but I have problems with timing. I did a small research on how FIFOs work. Consider the following script: == #!/bin/bash exec /dev/null mkfifo /tmp/tmpfifo ( for n in `seq

Re: [Bacula-users] Making backups with FIFOs -- in theory

2008-10-30 Thread Dan Langille
On Oct 30, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Shad L. Lords wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: 30.10.2008 04:47, Dan Langille wrote: SZÉKELYI Szabolcs wrote: I understand the concept, but I have problems with timing. I did a small research on how FIFOs work. Consider the following script: == #!/bin/bash

[Bacula-users] Making backups with FIFOs -- in theory

2008-10-29 Thread SZÉKELYI Szabolcs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the ability to use FIFOs to produce the data to be backed up is a nice feature of Bacula, however, I don't really understand how this can work reliably. I understand the concept, but I have problems with timing. I did a small research on how

[Bacula-users] Making backups with FIFOs -- in theory

2008-10-29 Thread SZÉKELYI Szabolcs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the ability to use FIFOs to produce the data to be backed up is a nice feature of Bacula, however, I don't really understand how this can work reliably. I understand the concept, but I have problems with timing. I did a small research on how

Re: [Bacula-users] Making backups with FIFOs -- in theory

2008-10-29 Thread Dan Langille
SZÉKELYI Szabolcs wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the ability to use FIFOs to produce the data to be backed up is a nice feature of Bacula, however, I don't really understand how this can work reliably. I understand the concept, but I have problems with