Thanks to all who replied on and off the list. I took one of the
suggestions and have done some scripting, especially since it got me
more than halfway complete on another project I've wanted to do: ad hoc,
user driven, manual full and incrmental backups.
I started with a table consisting of, among other things, clientname,
full or incr, linux or windows, along with the corresponding policyname
and schedule name. It is used by a script that accepts the 1st 3 items
as parms and initiates a backup with bpbackup, after verifying the
client and appropriate platform are up using bpgetconfig.
For my machine that can't decide whether its Linux or Windows, I just
run the script at key times during the week, scheduled with cron.
For my clients that need ad hoc full and incremental "manual" backups, I
now have a little we page that invokes the above script after a little
parameter checking. I still think NetBackup should support client
initiated manual backups, but this does the trick for now.
Thanks again, for everyone's help and ideas. cheeers, wayne
>I have a machine to backup that is sometimes booted with Windows and
>sometimes booted with Linux. The file systems are complely different and
>each need to be backed up.
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>My problem is that we don't want or otherwise need a second IP address for
>the machine.
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>Can I (How do I) set this up so that NetBackup will make a Windows backup
>when Windows is booted and Linux is backed up when Linux is booted? (Now,
>for example, if Linux is booted and a Windows backup is attempted, I get
>"invalid filelist specification" or some such error).
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