That's what I decided to do. I have a script that gets kicked off via crontab 
every Saturday to determine if it's the first Friday of the month or not. If it 
is, I execute the bpbackup command that uses a six month retention period. If 
not, I execute a bpbackup command that uses a schedule with a 5 week retention 
period. So far so good.

Thanks,
Dennis

>>> Bob Bakh <bbakh AT veritas DOT com> 02/15/01 10:36 AM >>>
Why not run everything from the master using it's scheduler and using the
bpbackup -w command.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Dwyer [mailto:dfdwyer AT tecoenergy DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:05 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Request for Backup of NT Client Issued via NT
Script


Because NBU is a frequency based scheduler, I need to build an NT script
that will request a backup of a client using one schedule if it's the first
Friday of the month and another schedule if it's any other Friday. Since
this will technically be a User Requested backup (the script will be running
on the client that will be backed up) what special considerations have to be
made on the client? I've read in the book that there are two versions of the
bpbackup command. One is for a user requested backup and the other is for an
immediate manual backup. I believe I want to use the second form because I
want to backup the entire server and I want the NT client to think that the
Master server is really making the request. This would assume a root user or
administrator user. Sounds kind of hokie I know, but you gotta do what you
gotta do. I have a need to vary the retention periods for a particular
client a