I use the session_notify script which executes after a series of backups
finish.  I had to do some tricky stuff so that it does not execute after
a User backup or user archive  (had backup_exit_notify change
session_notify to either start or not start the duplication based on
whether it was a scheduled backup or not).
There is a negative side to this.  Since session_notify calls the
duplication, it does not end until the duplication is done.  While
session_notify runs, it ties up a Netbackup process that prevents other
scheduled backups from starting.  Once the duplication ends and
session_notify exits, as long as the schedule window is not closed, it
will then start the next set of scheduled backups.  This may be a
problem if it takes a long to for duplication to run.  You may be able
to find another way to have session_notify kick off the duplication with
session_notify exiting right away.  In my case I don't want any backups
to start up until the previous duplication is done.

Jason Doyle, Network Support
Microsoft Certified Professional
Information Technology
AQS Technical Services
Ph #: 262-369-7402
Fax #: 262-369-7403
jason.doyle AT aqssys DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dave
Markham
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:52 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] duplication vs multiple copies

Im after some advice.

Netbackup 5.0 MP3 on Solaris with 2 media servers.

I backup my network clients over night and have a requirement for
offsite storage.
In order to keep a restore capability on site i need to duplicate my
backups.

I was wondering what people preferred to do. I have seen the multiple
copies function which i can write to a different vol pool, or i could
just duplicate the images written.

Im wondering how you can automatically run the duplication job when
allbackups have finished because you dont know what time that will be.

I was thinking of launching a duplication script from cron and checking
if any jobs are still running with the output of "bpdbjobs -report |grep
-i active" but dont know if this is a clean way

Any ideas?

Cheers
Dave
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