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[Veritas-bu] Starting an Archive backup from a policy

2007-05-16 10:48:50
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Starting an Archive backup from a policy
From: dave-bu at graniteweb.com (David Rock)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:48:50 -0500
* Schneider, Matthew J. <Matthew.Schneider at mybrighthouse.com> [2007-05-16 
09:19]:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to setup a policy to start an Archived backup from the
> media server instead of from the client.  In other words I would
> rather not use a script to start an archived backup from the client in
> the case the scheduled task or script fails, I would not find out
> about in the Activity Monitor.

no, no, NO.  User Archive backups can be run only from the client system
for a reason.  You want the USER to be the one to shoot themselves in
the foot, not you.  User Archives are bad news, ESPECIALLY scripted
ones.  All it takes is one filelist entry to be wrong and your whole
client system is GONE (backed up, but gone regardless).

So, unless you are the admin of that client system, do not go near it.
A better option is to understand what you are trying to accomplish and
see if there is a better (safer) way to do it.  Archive jobs are not
really intended to be used as a space-saving technique, they should be
used to Archive data (Take static data that is logically related and
store it off the system).  That is not the same thing.

Having said all that, of course there are ways to do it (bpstart_notify
on the client for one) but you should really re-evaluate your needs.

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com

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