Brian

We are using Control-M extensively to schedule our backups.

No you don't need any extra Control-M software. As long as you have the
Control-M agent on the Netbackup master you can schedule all your backups
from there.

The way we do it is to define Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly etc, schedule
in the Netbackup class, but with no time windows defined.
Control-M decides whether it should be running Daily, Weekly etc, and runs
the appropriate script which initiaites the appropriate backup schedule.

For example, here's are a daily backup script. A simple one line
command.....

#!/usr/bin/sh
# Daily backup of notes-mel
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup -i -c notes_NT -w 03:00:00 -s daily -h
notes-mel

The job will stay active in Control-M until the backup completes or fails.
If the backup hasn't completed in 3 hours, the job will fail.
Below is the weekly script.....

#!/usr/bin/sh
# Weekly backup of notes-mel
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup -i -c notes_NT -w 03:00:00 -s weekly -h
notes-mel

Make sure the jobs run under the root userid (required for the -i parameter
to make the backup run immediately).

Good luck.
Dean



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