I gather lots of Windows admins (including ours) use BLAT for email from
Windows for NBU.
The link below talks about how to set BLAT up:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH24110
It's not something I've done but I've heard enough Windows Admins mention it to
believe it is something that works.
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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of David
Rock
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:28 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Archive list
* Dennis Peacock <nbu-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> [2012-03-08 07:14]:
> Patrick,
> I'm not a windows guy, so I'm trying to see what I can do without
> having to find someone that can write a "windows script" to do this.
>
> What I'd prefer to be done is for me to setup a backup policy in NBU
> that is an Archive type policy. Point that policy to
> D:\Archive_Data\LZ and schedule the backup to run every night at 22:00
> hours. When the backup finishes successfully, it would remove the
> files and then run the bpflist or whatever to generate a list of what
> was backed up and email that to the customer.
>
> That's what I'd prefer to do, but I'm lacking in knowledge in this
> windows stuff as I've been living in the Unix/Linux world for over 30
> years. [Wink]
Well,
First of all, there is no such thing as an "Archive" Policy type. The
closest thing you would have is a Policy type of "MS-Windows" with a
schedule type of "User Archive". Archives are designed to be User
initiated, not Scheduled from the Master Server.
As for notifications, especially because of the nature of Archives, that
is something that is going to pretty much _have_ to be a Windows script
on the client system. You would have the logic in the clientside script
to manage all of that. There are a couple likely issues:
1. The Windows server doesn't have an MTA to send email with (typically
there is no sendmail or equivalent on Windows, so that would need to be
added)
2. It's pretty much guaranteed that this won't be something that will be
managed by you, it will be the Windows admins (although you would be
responsible for making the User Archive schedule available to them).
You _might_ be able to come up with some insane scheme like using a
scheduled backup that touches the client system, causes the clientside
script to run, and then uses bpend_notify once it's done to do all the
other heavy lifting. That still won't get you away from Windows
scripting.
Basically, what you are trying to do is something that NBU is not meant
to do. The expected behavior for Archives is that they are managed by
the client admin, not the backup admin. Archive jobs get a filelist
from the user, run the archive, and delete the files when they are done,
so the user would already know what files were archived because they
would have supplied the list to the command in the first place.
You would, at least, be able to query the backup info from the master
the following day and report what was backed up, but that's about it.
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