> I am trying to get a better understanding on how to invoke commands on
> clients during backups. From reading the posts here it sounds like I 
> need to creat a file on the client in C:\Program Files\Legato\nsr\res 
> and name the file after the group that the client belongs to.
> Example: servergroup.res
> 
> And within that file I enter the pre & post commands. In this example 
> I just want to know that it worked by echoing a response.
> 
> type: savepnpc; 
> precmd: "cmd.exe /c echo Start >> c:\temp\start.txt"; 
> pstcmd: "cmd.exe /c echo Done >> c:\temp\stop.txt"; 
> timeout: "11:45:00"; 
> 
> After many attempts and interations  of the .res file, I still cannot 
> get file to output during a backup. Am I doing something wrong? Do I 
> need to make any modifications to the client entry on the server.

That looks OK, but keep in mind that the environment available to pre/post 
commands is virtually nil, so it's best to specify full paths, etc. Also, 
in the client definition, "Backup command" must be set to "savepnpc" (or 
"savepc" if you want the scripts to run for *each* saveset) for the *.res 
file to even be consulted. That's the case on unix, but I suspect Windows 
is the same, unless you need to specify "savepnpc.exe", etc.

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