Hi, Davina,
Under NetWorker 7.1.1 the command you provided appears to update the
resource but does not actually start the group. This small change seems to
do a bit better:
echo ". type: NSR group; name: MyGroup"
update Autostart:start now" | nsradmin -i -
Thanks,
Conrad Macina
Pfizer, Inc.
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 19:17:25 +0100, Davina Treiber <Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM>
wrote:
>King, David - Eastman wrote:
>>
>> We use a third party scheduler that logs onto our Legato servers
>> worldwide (all W2K3 with NW 7.1.3 or 7.2) using an administrative
>> account and runs a PERL script that does a savegrp command. Along with
>> the usual processes (savegrp, nsrmmd, etc) are a cmd and perl process.
>>
>> The problem is that we cannot halt the savegroup without recycling the
>> Networker services. Since we have other backups and clone jobs
>> running, we do not wish to do this.
>>
>> I tried killing the savegrp, cmd and eventually all processes for that
>> account, but the savegroup didn't stop. If only one client is still
>> running, I can kill the save process on that client, but otherwise
>> cannot stop the savegroup.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>Killing off a group like this can be messy. After killing the savegrp
>process there will still be many processes running on clients, and
>associated nsrexec and nsrindexd processes on the server.
>
>A better solution is not to start a group by running the savegrp command
>directly, but to start it using nsradmin. By doing this you can then
>stop the command from the GUI as normal, or again using nsradmin. A
>command to do this on Unix would be something like:
>
>echo ". type: NSR group; name: MyGroup"
> update start now: Yes" | nsradmin -i -
>
>On Windows it will be something similar but I think the multi-line
>nsradmin command might cause a problem to the cmd parser. Perhaps you
>would need to write the nsradmin commands to a file then feed that to
>nsradmin like so:
>echo ". type: NSR group; name: MyGroup" > adminfile
>echo "update start now: Yes" >> adminfile
>nsradmin -i adminfile
>
>If you are relying on your scheduler to wait for the group to finish you
>will need to write a little loop that queries nsradmin periodically and
>waits for the group status to change to something other than "Running".
>I'll leave that detail to you.
>
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