Extend the window of jobs that can run during the day, and use
bpdbjobs -restart  (or right click Restart in Activity Monitor)
instead of
bpbackup -i  (or Manual backup in the policy window)

Any jobs whose window has closed will fail again, possibly polluting 
your success report, but you won't need to worry about load on clients. 
Also, depending on your tries setting, failed jobs will probably 
automatically retry this way.

Cron is reasonable too.


----Original message----
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:48:43 -0400
From: "Bob Stump" <stumpb at michigan.gov>
Subject: [Veritas-bu] how to disable manual backups during the daytime

NB 5.1_MP4 on Solaris 9 master
NN 6.0_MP3 on Solaris 10 master

Has anyone devised a way to disable manual backups for specific
policies only? I have over 500 policies on two different master servers
and it is hard to remember which ones should not be started during
business hours for testing or troubleshooting because of the negative
effect it has on overhead. I tried using the keyword in the policy,
spreadsheets and post-it notes, but still manual backups get started. I
can't simply slap the culprit that starts a manual backup because
sometimes it is I. :-)  I was thinking of maybe using a cron job to
de-activate the specific policies at 8AM and another cron job to
reactivate at 6PM. Is there a simpler way?


-- 
Joe Royer / SysAdmin / Digital Motorworks / 512-692-1028


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