Nick, if you don't have a TDP for the app, you can still use the PRESCHEDCOMMAND and POSTSCHEDCOMMAND options of the B/A-client.
if you have a VM, the VMware-API gives you a similar hook: **/usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Michael Prix On 02/28/2014 03:14 PM, Nick Laflamme wrote: > I apologize for introducing a tangent, but I need some help defining a > problem. > > Those of us who have studied (or used!) TSM for VE know that the TDP for > SQL Server can receive a signal from Windows Server that something is about > to take a backup. The same signal should trigger any pending writes before > something takes a snapshot and then backs up a restorable disk image. > > Are there similar signals (which might not be the right word) in Linux or > various UNIX systems? Assuming a lack of support from an application > vendor, I'd want at least to fire off a script upon receiving that signal > to use existing commands to "freeze" the app, > > Are there better idioms I should use with my Linux/UNIX gurus, or is this > simply not an option yet? > > Thanks, > Nick
