Author: LeeAnne.Pedersen AT gov.ab DOT ca (Lee Anne Pedersen)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 08:59:04 -0700
I need to be able to script the expiry of backups on disk after they've been duplicated to tape. Right now I'm having to manually type in each backup id. Any suggestions or examples of NT scripting t
Author: kevin.v.vapiwala AT ssmb DOT com (Vapiwala, Kevin V [IT])
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:14:10 -0500
Lee, You can use bpimagelist to get the backup id for a particular client that's passed to it via script and then use that id to run it against bpexpdate to expire it. Kevin Vapiwala Salomon Smith Ba
Author: LeeAnne.Pedersen AT gov.ab DOT ca (Lee Anne Pedersen)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:54:21 -0700
Thank you, Kevin, I'll take a look at it. I really know very little about command line scripting in NT. Could you direct me to a source that would explain the basics, such as loops, variable usage, r
Lee Anne: You might want to consider using a language like Perl for this, as it is much more flexible than the native NT batch language. Using the NBUX extensions with ActivePerl on NT, it would be p