I think I may not have read correctly - this referred to Calendar-based 
schedules, correct?

-Steve-
~~~~


Steve Beuttel wrote:
> I'm sorry ... did I read correctly that you have verified that NBU 6.0 
> will not allow a start
> window to cross midnight? And someone actually told you that was a 
> feature because to
> do so is a "bad practice"?
>
> Is this common experience?
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve-
> ~~~~
>
>
>
> Bob Stump wrote:
>   
>> goofy isn't the word I was thinking of....bad prcatice to do backups 
>> from 6PM to 6AM????
>>  
>> anyhow. I should have included that I am using NB5.1_MP4
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>
>>
>>     
>>>>> "Marks, Jonathan - Fort Collins, CO" <Jonathan.Marks at ftc.usda.gov> 
>>>>>           
>> 6/13/2006 12:02 PM >>>
>> If you are using Netbackup 6.0 you can not have your start window 
>> cross midnight.  I was told that it is bad practice.  I think 
>> Netbackup has gone goofy.
>>  
>>
>> -Jonathan Marks (970)295-5362
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:* Bob Stump [mailto:stumpb at michigan.gov]
>> *Sent:* Monday, June 12, 2006 4:02 PM
>> *To:* veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
>> *Subject:* [Veritas-bu] whats wrong with my calendar based backup 
>> schedule.bppllist included.
>>
>> I have years of experience with frequency based scheduling but I have 
>> always shied away from calendar based. Today I made my first attempt 
>> and I cannot see where I made a mistake. Please review this and help 
>> me if you can. Thanks.
>>  
>>  
>> Here is the problem
>> The calendar based backup started on the first day that I made this 
>> policy active even though it is not suppose to be active until the 
>> last Monday of the month.
>>  
>> Here is the strategy
>> 1. full backup every monday night excluding last monday of the month 
>> with 1 month retention
>>    allow tuesday full for any failures that may occur on monday
>> 3. last monday of each month run a calendar full backup with 3 month 
>> retention
>>    retries allowed after runday which would be tuesday night.
>> 2. incremental backup every night except monday nights with 1 month 
>> retention
>>  
>> Here is the bppllist:
>> Policy Name:       groupwise01-09
>>  
>>   Policy Type:         Standard
>>   Active:              yes
>>   Effective date:      06/12/2006 08:00:00
>>   Client Compress:     no
>>   Follow NFS Mounts:   no
>>   Cross Mount Points:  no
>>   Collect TIR info:    no
>>   Block Incremental:   no
>>   Mult. Data Streams:  yes
>>   Client Encrypt:      no
>>   Checkpoint:          no
>>   Policy Priority:     25
>>   Max Jobs/Policy:     Unlimited
>>   Disaster Recovery:   0
>>   Residence:           dssu_grp
>>   Volume Pool:         Novell
>>   Keyword:             (none specified)
>>  
>>   HW/OS/Client:  Novell        NetWare       gw01
>>                  Novell        NetWare       gw02
>>                  Novell        NetWare       gw03
>>                  Novell        NetWare       gw04
>>                  Novell        NetWare       gw05
>>                  Novell        NetWare       gw06
>>                  Novell        NetWare       gw07
>>                  Novell        NetWare       gw08
>>                  Novell        NetWare       gw09
>>  
>>   Include:  /FS
>>  
>>   Schedule:          17.30_mon_calendar
>>     Type:            Full Backup
>>     Maximum MPX:     10
>>     Synthetic:       0
>>     PFI Recovery:    0
>>     Retention Level: 5 (3 months)
>>     Number Copies:   1
>>     Fail on Error:   0
>>     Residence:       dssu04
>>     Volume Pool:     (same as policy volume pool)
>>     Calendar sched: Enabled
>>       Allowed to retry after run day
>>       SPECIFIC DATE 0 - 06/26/2006
>>       SPECIFIC DATE 1 - 07/31/2006
>>       SPECIFIC DATE 2 - 08/28/2006
>>       SPECIFIC DATE 3 - 09/25/2006
>>       SPECIFIC DATE 4 - 10/30/2006
>>       SPECIFIC DATE 5 - 11/27/2006
>>       SPECIFIC DATE 6 - 12/25/2006
>>       Monday, Week 5
>>     Daily Windows:
>>           Monday     18:30:00  -->  Tuesday    04:00:00
>>           Tuesday    17:30:00  -->  Wednesday  04:00:00
>>  
>>   Schedule:          17.30_mon_full
>>     Type:            Full Backup
>>     Frequency:       every 5 days
>>     Maximum MPX:     10
>>     Synthetic:       0
>>     PFI Recovery:    0
>>     Retention Level: 3 (1 month)
>>     Number Copies:   1
>>     Fail on Error:   0
>>     Residence:       dssu04
>>     Volume Pool:     (same as policy volume pool)
>>       EXCLUDE DATE 0 - 06/26/2006
>>       EXCLUDE DATE 1 - 07/31/2006
>>       EXCLUDE DATE 2 - 08/28/2006
>>       EXCLUDE DATE 3 - 09/25/2006
>>       EXCLUDE DATE 4 - 10/30/2006
>>       EXCLUDE DATE 5 - 11/27/2006
>>       EXCLUDE DATE 6 - 12/25/2006
>>     Daily Windows:
>>           Monday     17:20:00  -->  Tuesday    04:00:00
>>           Tuesday    17:30:00  -->  Wednesday  04:00:00
>>  
>>   Schedule:          17.30_mon_inc
>>     Type:            Differential Incremental Backup
>>     Frequency:       every 12 hours
>>     Maximum MPX:     10
>>     Synthetic:       0
>>     PFI Recovery:    0
>>     Retention Level: 3 (1 month)
>>     Number Copies:   1
>>     Fail on Error:   0
>>     Residence:       (specific storage unit not required)
>>     Volume Pool:     (same as policy volume pool)
>>     Daily Windows:
>>           Sunday     17:30:00  -->  Monday     04:00:00
>>           Tuesday    17:30:00  -->  Wednesday  04:00:00
>>           Wednesday  17:30:00  -->  Thursday   04:00:00
>>           Thursday   17:30:00  -->  Friday     04:00:00
>>           Friday     17:30:00  -->  Saturday   04:00:00
>>           Saturday   17:30:00  -->  Sunday     04:00:00
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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