Re: dbmcli does not support external commands anymore

Hi Christiane,

I understand the security risk - but SAP cannot give up important functionality for backup without supplying an alternative. Since 7.8 MaxDB supports I/P consitent EXTERNAL snapshots: 

db_connect

backup_start <template_name>

   <create the IO consistent Snapshot clone>

backup_finish <template_name> ExternalBackupID <external_backup_ID>

db_release

Now these snapshots are not longer possible. We need to start an external script from within dbmcli.

You have already a concept for that: Events are allowed to start scripts which are listed in dbm_whitelist.cfg.

Regards Günter