Building on Will's comments

The bpstart_notify and bpend_notify scripts run on the client and should be
copied from /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies onto the client in
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin and made executable.

The script must complete with an exit status of 0 in order for the backup to
continue/complete properly. It has to return the status 0 within the default
of 300 seconds unless you change the BPSTART_TIMEOUT option on the
server.(ie oracle shutdowns sometimes take longer than 5 minutes)

you can add

 .policyname to the script name for a specific policy ie:
bpstart_notify.Oracle

and

 .policyname.scheduel for a specific schedule within the policy ie:
bpstart_notify.Oracle.FullWeekly

And it is case sensitive for the entire script file name

-Manny

Emmanuel Korkodilos
Senior Systems Consultant
Corporate Technologies, Inc

M: 973-229-3791
E: ekorkodilos AT cptech DOT com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of William
> Enestvedt
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:43 AM
> To: Fisk, Nathan (ROC); Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Oracle + NBU... A stupid question
>
>
> >
> > Is it possible to run a script automatically (to shutdown
> > oracle services) just before a backup begins?
> >
>    Put whatever you like into
> /usr/openv/netbackupo/bin/bpstart_notify -- but just be sure that
> it doesn't produce any output or NBU will probably get confused.
> (The script was orignally there to do just what you want: close
> down Oracle databases before a backup job ran.)
>    Make sure that you also use the bpend_notify script to re-open
> your database(s)!
>    I generally just have the /etc/init.d/dbstart script execute
> from bpend_notify (and dbshut from bpstart_notify -- don't get
> confused here) so that I don't have to maintain two parallel scripts.
> -wde
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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