On Friday 18 December 2020 04:48:22 Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote: > 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. Yes, that sounds very usefull, thank you Slávek. But since the amanda scripts all runs uid:gid as amanda:backup, but all my mail stuff runs as me, can dcop reach across those ownership changes and get that done? Or will I have to put that in the root crontab that does it all? > > regards > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > Cheers 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
