Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Disable a client for one night

2005-04-13 12:02:51
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disable a client for one night
From: ewilts AT ewilts DOT org (Ed Wilts)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:02:51 -0500
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:22:50AM -0500, Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA 
wrote:
> You could on the client exclude everything(I don't like this one, cuz i 
> would more likely forget to set it back)

The other problem is that if the schedule says to do a full, the "full"
will be marked as succesful.  Tomorrow, when you're doing an
incremental, you'll only back up files modified since today's "full"
instead of doing another full.  If you need to do a restore, you'll go
back to your last "full" instead of a backup that actually contains
something useful.

You're better off either not scheduling the job at all or having it
fail.

The moral of the story is don't lie to NetBackup.  It bites back.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org