Re: Can a post-dle-backup script invalidate the backup?

Chapman Flack <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:45:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/21/2017 03:27 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:

> The application save its state file (gnutar listdir) before it exit, and
> the following backup can be relative to that state file, failing a
> backup after that step could lead to unreliable following backup.

I would want the effect of invalidating a backup to include forcing
the next one to be at a level no greater than the invalid one,
so any saved state from the invalid one would be moot.

-Chap