Andrew
Another alternative is to use the Schedule Service on your OS to stop the AV
before the Backups kick in and re-start the services after a given set time.
For example if you find your backups usually finish in around 12 hours set
the service to start after this time.

Just a thought... 

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Stueve [mailto:andrew.stueve at neovera.com] 
Sent: 10 October 2006 18:04
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Start/Stop scripts for Exchange backup


Setup: Exchange 2k with Antivirus, Netbackup 5.1mp5,
        ** Individual Mailbox Backups **

So, there are 400 mailboxes, and each backs up as a separate stream.  I am
trying to figure the the correct scripts to have on the server to stop the
anti-virus before the mailbox backups, and then start the anti-virus after
_all_ of the mailboxes have finished backing up.

Scripts I am familiar with - but not sure which to use...

bpstart_notify.bat - called when bpbkar is started - started for each
stream?  Does this mean it will be called 400 times?

bpednd_notify.bat - called with bpbkar finishes a job - again, will it get
called after each stream finishes?

session_notify.cmd - called each time at least one regularly scheduled
backup completes

session_start_notify.cmd - called prior to any backup or archive jobs


-Andrew

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