Re: script execution with -E after slice finished

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Clemens Ender wrote:
| Hi,
|

Hello Clemens,

| I'm trying to do the following:
|
| Backup several slices to DVD-RAM discs, asking the user to change disks
| each time a slice (DVD-RAM) is full.
| However I don't want to prompt the user via the terminal, but rather
| send out an email. Once notified the user
| would change DVD-RAM discs, and confirm the "disk-change" via email or a
| web-interface or whatever. The  catalogue-slice goes to harddisk by
the way.
|
| Now I've choosen DAR, because it's a really nice backup-backend, and I
| saw the options -p and -E, and thought this is exactly what I need.
| Unfortunately not quite, as it seems.
|
| -p is only capable of prompting the user via command-line interface.

yes, ... dar "was" command-line tool at the beginning ;-)

|
| remains -E, this actually works with some drawback. The script provided
| to this parameter is executed _after_ a slice is finished and there
| seems to be no way to tell the script, wether the slice finished because
| it's full (demanding another DVD-RAM disc) or wether is just finished
| because there is no more data to be written. I checked "%c" option, but
| always passed context "operation" to the -E-script. So I end up in a
| situation, where my -E-script is called after every slice, which then
| prompts me for a disc-change (currently in my testing-setup via email)
| even after the "last" slice, which actually doenst need any further
| disc, but just needs to write the catalogue-slice to harddisk.
|
| Too bad the current DAR-design offers 2 options to handle multi-slice
| DARs, but none (fully) works in my situation.

The original idea was to make something for each slice (like CD-R
burning or parchive checksums).

|
| Any ideas ?

yes, a new feature, with an specific "context" string when the last
string has been completed. This is now under work. :-)

|
| Thanks in advance,
|   Clemens Ender
|
|
|

Cheers,
Denis.
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