18 Dec
2020
18 Dec
'20
9:48 a.m.
On Friday 18 of December 2020 10:35:09 deloptes via tde-users wrote:
Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote:
Snapshot is a good option. Using LVM is a useful thing :)
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.
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
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Cheers
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Slávek