19 Dec
2020
19 Dec
'20
6:51 p.m.
On Saturday 19 December 2020 12:48:00 Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote:
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...
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>
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. regards
____________________________________________________
Cheers