On Saturday 19 December 2020 12:48:00 Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote: > On Friday 18 of December 2020 13:58:45 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > > 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? > > Yes, there is a problem that the backup runs under a different user > than the one whose dcop server you need to communicate with. This > continues in the thread: > > Amrecover hangs after restore > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinity >desktop.org/thread/EBS42BSZZZ2RAACOBB32W7LK5DUGQBCP/ > Which does little to actually instruct me how to proceed. And /home/amanda/ICEauthority is an empty file. -rw------- 1 amanda backup 0 Mar 12 2008 .ICEauthority created in 2008, while /home/gene/.ICEauthority is -rw------- 1 gene gene 4300 Dec 3 01:41 /home/gene/.ICEauthority not an empty file. Must be 2 dozen MIT_MAGIC-COOKIES in it. And I'm in way over my head... > > > > regards > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > 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
