Justin,

I have been doing just that on our Solaris system for many years now.  I use a 
script that monitors the free space on the file system and once it reaches a 
threshold it initiates a Networker Save of the archive logs and then deletes 
them.  It uses nsradmin to initiate and check for completion of the Savegroup.  
I'd be happy to share the details with you if you are interested.

Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:13 PM
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Subject: [Networker] Need to obtain the jobid of a client initiated save via 
command line reliably

We have several oracle databases that are not RMAN.  We have a script that 
monitors the archive directories, and initiates a backup once they get to a set 
threshold.  This has been running for several years on Data Protector.  I'm 
working to migrate this same logic to Networker.

I need to initiate a save session from the client, then be able to periodically 
check the status of that save session.  I know jobquery is the best place to 
get the status of a backup.  Any thoughts as the best way to initiate a manual 
save, and then obtain it's job id so you can periodically check it's status.  
I've came up with a few ways, but none so far are 100% reliable in obtaining 
the correct job id while other backups are running at the same time.

What sucks is that when the save job is initiated from the client, the amount 
of information that can be obtained from the save job attribute in jobquery is 
limited.



Justin M Roberts
GE Appliances and Lighting
TAS Midrange Services

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