[Veritas-bu] pre- post- backup commands?

If you create a file in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin named bpstart_notify, it
will be executed before the backing up of the data starts. A file named
bpend_notify will run after the data has been buffered to be written to
tape,

There are two caveats:
1)      The list of mount points to be backed will have already been
determined before bpstart_notify is called, so keep that in mind. You can
specify the mount point in the files section of the class definition (as
opposed to ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES), in which case you shouldn't have a problem.
2)      If you call the file bpstart_notify than all backups running on that
client will call the script. To avoid this, specify bpstart_notify.classname
if you want the script to only run for certain schedules then,
bpstart_notify.classname.schedulename. (This applies to bpend_notify as
well). An example of bpstart_notify and bpend_notify can be found in
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/goodies directory, and they are discused in the
Systems Administrators Guide as well.

Good Luck,
Patrick Whelan 
Consulting 
[NBU (with extensions) and Storage Migrator for UNIX] 
[VxFS and Volume Manager]
pwhelan AT veritas DOT com

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                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Arthur Darren Dunham [mailto:add AT netcom DOT com]
                Sent:   Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:16 PM
                To:     veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
                Subject:        [Veritas-bu] pre- post- backup commands?

                Is there a way to run a commands prior to and just after a
backup?
                I'd like to mount and unmound a filesystem (basically) and
need to run
                commands to do it. 

                We're running NB 3.2 on Solaris.  The client is Solaris
also.

                Thanks!

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                Darren Dunham
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