Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > Is there a dbus command my amanda script can send to tell amanda to hold > off expiry till amanda is done? > > Might be over an hour of expiry holdoff needed at times. Hi Gene, don't know about Amanda and dbus, but the best way to do a backup (nowdays) is to make a snapshot of the LVM and do the backup from the snapshot. You have to have some spare space - for the snapshot to work. I am planning myself to start doing this at home next year - but I need to do the calculations first and probably add/replace some disks. I am excited of how this works in production (the backup solution I worked with is proprietary one). It does backup VMs and DBs while they are operating and total disk space backuped is in TBs. Keep in mind: (as we usually say) it is not only the making of the backup, but the ability to restore. BTW kmail does not know dbus (AFAIK) regards