HP B6960-90078 A-4, Appendix A, Pre- and Post- exec Script Templates, Example A-1Pre- exec Script Template, Backing Up and Restoring UNIX Specifics

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Backing Up and Restoring UNIX Specifics

If the amount of data modified on the snapped filesystem is higher than the space available, Data Protector produces Cannot stat error messages for all the remaining files to be backed up. You must unmount the snapshot filesystem and repeat the backup procedure.

2.Create a temporary directory to which you will mount the snapshot filesystem.

3.Create shell scripts to mount and unmount the snapshot filesystem to the temporary directory. See “Pre- and Post -exec Script Templates” in the next section for templates of these scripts.

4.Configure a backup of the temporary directory. The mount script must be specified as the Pre- exec command, and the unmount script as the Post-exec command.

Pre- and Post- exec Script Templates

Here are example templates that can be configured as Data Protector Pre- exec and Post- exec commands to mount or unmount the VxFS filesystem.

Example A-1 Pre- exec Script Template

#SnapMount.sh

#Mounting snapshot filesystem (Pre-exec script)

#A script requires 3 parameters:

#1. a block special file of the snapped FS

#or

#a mount point directory of the snapped FS

#2. a block special file of the snapshot FS

#3. a mount point of the snapshot FS

#

#NOTE:

#In case of multiple Disk Agents reading from the same snapshot

#FS,

#the Pre-exec script should contain a kind of synchronization

#mechanism for following reasons:

#

# 1) an attempt to mount an already mounted snapshot FS,

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