On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:00:26PM -0400, Campbell, Heather wrote:
> All,
>           I am looking for some info on how to stop a backup group at a
> certain time each day. I'm looking for the proper syntax/coding for
> savepnpc, so I can use the "stop now" function along with a timeout
> setting to stop a group, if running, at 8AM each weekday.  

Why savepnpc?  That would be somewhat appropriate for stopping a
particular backup, or performing certain tasks after the backup
finishes, but not if you just want to stop a group every day.

If you want to do it at the same time of day every day, I'd probably
just use cron and do something like:

printf "type:nsr group;name: mygroup\nupdate stop now:True\n" | nsradmin -i -

and run that every day.  This will only stop the group if it's fired
directly by the nsr system (scheduler, 'start' button, or nsradmin
request), but not if it was launched directly via 'nsrgrp'.

-- 
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