Re: [Veritas-bu] Ad-hoc NDMP backups?

No need for the date cheat, just use a frequency schedule with no start
windows. (Maybe the GUI makes it unclear you can do that? It's simple
enough with bppolicynew/bpplsched[rep].)

That said, I think Darren's original question may touch on include
lists. Because (unless I'm ignorant of it) there's no such thing as a
UBAK schedule under NDMP policies, you can't arbitrarily define the
include list on the fly, so you do at least have to edit the includes,
but there's no reason not to leave the policy floating around for later
reuse. (I'm used to doing roughly that but for decom backups and cycling
the client list around.)

--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Bousselot [mailto:jon-bousselot AT pacbell DOT net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:17 AM
To: A Darren Dunham
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Ad-hoc NDMP backups?

I do this all the time.

Create a policy as you would normally, but instead of properly defining 
a schedule, give it no hours during any day to run, and make it calendar

based with a run day selected from a day two or three weeks ago.  (like 
June 1, 2008)  Any time you need to run it, just do a manual backup.  
Since it has no backup window, and the calendar day is permanently in 
the past, it will never start automatically.

-Jon

> I have the occasional need for "one-time" backups of some NDMP data.
I
> can do the backup by setting up a policy, doing a manual backup, then
> removing the policy.
>
> Is there any way of doing a manual NDMP backup without setting up a
> policy?  
>
> Thanks!
> -- Darren _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu 
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