Omniback pre-exec and post-exec

[Darrell Allen]

I'm trying to run pre and post processing scripts on a remote host before backing up it's filesystems. I specified absolute path names however Omniback aborted the backup because it couldn't find "/opt/omni/lbin//absolute_pathname". Why did Omniback prepend "/opt/omni/lbin" to the absolute path I specified?

Further, using absolute path to run a pre-exec script on the cell manager worked fine.

Thanks in advance.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

The Administrator's Guide clearly states that on the Cell Manager commands can reside in any directory but the full pathname has to be specified. On the remote clients commands can only reside in /opt/omni/lbin (HP-UX 10.X,11.X), in /usr/omni/bin on other UNIX systems, and in %OmniBack_Home%\bin on WINx systems. Even this behavior can be more restricted by the UsePanScripts setting in the /etc/opt/omni/options/global file.
Obviously, you can always make a tiny wrapper script in /opt/omni/lbin to call your real scripts. You have just been bitten by an OmniBack feature.

[Darrell Allen]

Obviously. Thanks for the answer. I thought I ran a successful test last week but apparantly I missed something. And now that I've located our copy of the guide perhaps I may even read it.

Darrell