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Hi All,

I use the preexec hook to setup (mostly mount) my backup media, so I need it to
be run for every rsnapshot action, including ones that are just rotation. I've
attached a patch which does that. I don't know if this is a change you want to
make in the main version or not -- it would be good for me, but bad for people
who do expensive operations in preexec.

-Eric




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On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 09:34 -0400, Eric W. Anderson wrote:
I use the preexec hook to setup (mostly mount) my backup media, so I need it to
be run for every rsnapshot action, including ones that are just rotation. I've
attached a patch which does that. I don't know if this is a change you want to
make in the main version or not -- it would be good for me, but bad for people
who do expensive operations in preexec.

The current pre/postexec is for preparing the sources for a snapshot to
be captured, e.g., putting servers in read-only mode. Setting up access
to the snapshot root would be a different feature. See
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2446248&group_id=88546&atid=587079 .

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Thus spake Matt McCutchen (matt < at > mattmccutchen.net):

...

The current pre/postexec is for preparing the sources for a snapshot to
be captured, e.g., putting servers in read-only mode. Setting up access
to the snapshot root would be a different feature. See
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2446248&group_id=88546&atid=587079 .

I'll buy that. Do you think such a feature should be implemented? You suggest
a wrapper in your sourceforge comment. My inclination would be to put it in
rsnapshot itself, just because a wrapper would be one more thing for the user
to keep track of, but that's not a very powerful argument.

-Eric

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