On 03/19/2013 02:29 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > After publicly bitching about Linux's poor backup infrastructure for the > hundredth time, I decided to write a common system for making snapshots.
Hi, This is interesting since we have nothing like the VSS infrastructure on Windows. My experience is with snapshots at the hypervisor level (VMware vSphere) where I've been doing the quiescing you mention by means of the following 2 scripts that the "VMware Tools"(inside the VM) would call (when you request a snapshot): /usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script It's just a matter of putting the necessary stuff in those scripts and you're done. BTW, I always thought it would be great if there were some standard directory where every app, when it gets installed, would put its pre-freeze & post-thaw stuff. (Just like Apache puts its logrotate config file in /etc/logrotate.d/ when you install it). That way, whenever you perform a snapshot (no matter the kind of snapshot), all files within those directories would be executed (prior & post snaps). The thing is to separate the snapshotting & the quiescing activities so that the quiescing works regardless of the snapshot technology being used. Is this more or less what you're doing? -- Jorge -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
