Exactly.  Homer is now accepting suggestions!
 


Scott Deiter
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-----Original Message-----
From: bob944 [mailto:bob944 at attglobal.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:53 PM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Deiter Scott
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Bparchive status

> Windows 2000 and 2003 clients
> Netbackup 5.1 mp4
> Solaris master/media
> The bparchive is setup as a user backup 

bparchive is a user archive, not a user backup.  Details are important.

> and scripted in a dos.bat file.

>                                  PROBLEM:
> We have been forced to archive our sql tranasctions logs.
> We have attempted to use the bparchive against a temporary directory
> where we use robocopy to move the files from  source to this temporary
> directory.  The ugly thing that just happened is that on of the files
> was not completely there.  So a status 1 occurred.  None of the files
> where deleted.  So next time(daily) we must create another image of
> these files and hope for a status code 0. This consumes excessive tape
> and time. 2-7 gig per day.
> 
> How can we use set up an archive so that every successfully archived
> file is deleted at the end ?

"The ugly thing that just happened is that on of the files was not
completely there."  Huh?  Doesn't this make you do a "DOH!" Homer
Simpson headslap and realize your .bat contains a simplistic,
unfinished, ill-designed kludge masquerading as a business process?
Suggest it would be more productive to spend five minutes rethinking
your process than making it worse by adding file-at-a-time bparchive.