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From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net>
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Subject: Re: -current amanda dump -L
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:30:04AM -0600, Aaron Wohl wrote:
> How can I convince the amanda backup system to use -L when running dumps
> so it can take advantage of using snapshots?   I checked all the amanda
> web man pages abd FAQ system but didnt see anything on snapshoting or
> giving extra options to dump.

How about putting this short wrapper in amanda's path?

#!/bin/sh
exec dump -L ${1+"$@"}

-- 
Joshua Goodall
joshua@roughtrade.net             "Your object hit ratio is weak, old man"
"If you cache me now, I will dump more core than you can possibly imagine"