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[Veritas-bu] RE: What is the BEST WAY to schedule a monthly backup (without 4. 5)

2002-05-08 11:40:12
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: What is the BEST WAY to schedule a monthly backup (without 4. 5)
From: Sandy.Elrick AT gdcanada DOT com (Elrick, Sandy)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:40:12 -0600
Hi Geoff,

Although there is no easy way, the way we handled it was the following
(Assuming NBDC 3.2 or 3.4 on Solaris):

Create a class specifically to handle this job.  Schedule it for the night
or morning after the data gets placed... let's say it get's placed on the
Friday of the week, have the job run either on a Friday night or Saturday
morning.  You don't need to worry about number of days.  Just set it on a
normal daily schedule.  What you do have to worry about is manually
activating it for the 'weekend' that you have to back it up and deactivating
it before the next weekend.

Those who have Perl scripting done well could probably automate this a lot
better.  The could create some script and/or cron job to modify the class.
This would involve modifying the netbackup/db/class/<classname>/info file
entry "ACTIVE" to 0 to make it active and then 1 to deactivate it.

Hope that helps.

Sandy

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"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."





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