I came across one recent disadvantage of external scheduling, in my case
it's simply cron calling scripts.

The automatic-retry-in-event-of-failure feature of NB doesn't work
anymore.  Really, it's "retry withing window" and if there's no
scheduled windows, then there's no retry.

I guess I'm not in on on this trend you're describing.  Except for a few
applications that require massive multi-server coordinated preparation
(Documentum, for example) there's no advantage for us to not use the
built-in NB scheduler.

To answer your last question, we use Maestro for enterprise scheduling.

-M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Stump,
Bob A
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:36 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] 3rd party scheduling

I have seen a trend to stop using NetBackup for starting and monitoring
backups. The move has been to doing all command line backups from a 3rd
party scheduler as part of a true enterprise scheduling, monitoring and
management implementation. NetBackup is simply one of many products that
are controlled by the enterprise 3rd party sheduler/monitor. What are
the drawbacks to moving in this direction?

What are some of the enterprise scheduling and monitoring/management 3rd
party solutions have you recently seen? Autosys? Stonebranch?

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