Author: jking AT hnl.bcm.tmc DOT edu (Justin King)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:44:22 -0600
Can someone tell me if this is possible-- and if so, where to start. I'd like to automate a weekly catalog backup to disk for burning onto DVD-R. I can do this manually with the bpbackupdb command; h
Sure can. NT or UNIX? The one caveat is that when you run bpbackupdb independent of NBU's internal scheduler, you run the risk of the DB being updated. This may happen DB pruning occurs or scheduled
Author: jking AT hnl.bcm.tmc DOT edu (Justin King)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:09:07 -0600
The DB updating issue is exactly what I was attempting to avoid. :) I was looking for some sort of flag to determine that the catalog backup is complete-- and then the ability to kick off a process b
The dbbackup_notify.sh script in /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/ updates a file called DBBACKUP_CALLED, you can check that file or add some texture around the script to identify if the catalog backup was s
Justin, The bodge I use for this sort of thing is: a) Rename the binary ("bpbackupdb" in this case) to (e.g.) "bpbackupdb.exe" b) Write a shell script wrapper with the original name that calls the ".
I know this isn't entirely a NBU question, but..... I have recently moved back from the dark side (I'm setting up NBU under UNIX, after previously using NT/W2K). I am setting up a script to telnet fr
Andy: Ordinary shell scripts can't wait for prompts like logins and passwords. There are a few ways I'd approach this problem: 1. Use Perl and the Net::Telnet module: http://search.cpan.org/search?di
Author: james.park AT bt DOT com (james.park AT bt DOT com)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 12:41:46 +0100
Andy, There is no need to telnet, to initiate a pre-backup process. Lookup notification scripts ( bpstart_notify ) in the manual. This will do what you are looking for. And by using built-in netbacku