On Friday 18 of December 2020 10:35:09 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > > Is there a dbus command my amanda script can send to tell amanda to > > hold off expiry till amanda is done? > > > > Might be over an hour of expiry holdoff needed at times. > > Hi Gene, > don't know about Amanda and dbus, but the best way to do a backup > (nowdays) is to make a snapshot of the LVM and do the backup from the > snapshot. You have to have some spare space - for the snapshot to work. > I am planning myself to start doing this at home next year - but I need > to do the calculations first and probably add/replace some disks. > I am excited of how this works in production (the backup solution I > worked with is proprietary one). It does backup VMs and DBs while they > are operating and total disk space backuped is in TBs. > Keep in mind: (as we usually say) it is not only the making of the > backup, but the ability to restore. > Snapshot is a good option. Using LVM is a useful thing :) > BTW kmail does not know dbus (AFAIK) > KMail does not have dbus, but uses DCOP. You can use kdcop to explore DCOP calling options. For kmail I see there KMailIface and pauseBackgroundJobs / resumeBackgroundJobs functions that look like they might be useful for you. > regards > > ____________________________________________________ Cheers -- Slávek
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