Since your NW Server is linux, you simply write a shell script that
issues the 'savegrp' command naming the appropriate group-name. It will
not execute any commands below the savegrp command until the group is
completed....  You can initiate it via cron.

 
savegrp [ options ] [ -R | -G ] [ groupname ]
options: [ -EIOFXmnpv ] [ -l level | -C schedule ] 
         [ -N parallelism ] [ -e expiration ] [ -w browse ] 
         [ -y retention ] [ -t date ] [ -r retries ] [ -P printer 
         [ -W width ] [ -b backup snapshot ] [- c client ... ]

I sort of do this on our Windows server once a day to save all client
indexes since I have index-save turned off on all my other groups. The
command that does this is:
 savegrp -O group-name -N 7    (the -O saves only indexes, and the -N 7
limits the # of concurrent save-streams)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of STANLEY R. HORWITZ
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 2:54 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Starting a savegroup via a script
> 
> Greetings everyone;
> 
> I could have swore my question came up on this list before, 
> but searching the archives hasn't been fruitful.
> 
> What I need to know is how to start a savegroup from a script 
> that is run on a Linux box using NetWorker 7.4.4 (both client 
> and server). Ideally, I would like to have the script pause 
> until the entire savegroup is finished so I know when to 
> proceed to the next step in the script.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stan
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