System backup applications.

[Ronny Adsetts]

Jason Truong said at 27/10/2004 21:58:
> 
> Would you be so kind to forward on over that script for freezing and 
> snapshots? Our company is moving to Net Backup but I would still like to 
> use Amanda for our linux farms. I have not started to use "snapshots" in my
> linux environment but that's something I'm very interested in
> implementing.

Here we go. Obviously, don't blame me if it eats your children. It needs to
run as root. I suggest you read the script through (it's fairly simple) and
then play with it on a test machine.

Feel free to send me feedback, ideas and/or patches.

> Also any links would be appreciated.

For LVM, the LVM howto and the man pages (man lvcreate; the -s option) are all 
you'll need:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

For XFS, man xfs_freeze.

For Amanda, the docs and the chapter from the unix backup book:

http://www.amanda.org/docs/AMANDA-docs.html
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html

Ronny
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