Rainer,

I think, savegrp -pvvv will only tell you something about the calculated
backup level, save sets and pools to which this savegroup will direct its
data, but it will not test the functionality of your savepnpc-scripts.
For that purpose you could run an estimate via 'savegrp -n -I groupname';
this will run your savepnpc-scripts and will also report more errors, as
it, as I understand it, really tries to walk the client's file system.

HTH
Ingo

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:03:57 -0000, Mark Boeijen - MBE
<MBoeijen AT BELLMICRO.EU DOT COM> wrote:

>Hi Rainer,
>
>What you could do is a dry-run of the backup or in other words a preview
of the backup. This can be done from the GUI right-click on the group you
want to run or via command line savegrp -pvvv Default. This command will
perform a preview of the group Default, the amount of v's increases the
amount of verbosity (information) you will receive. It will not write any
data to tape, disk or whatever device you have configured.
>
>Regards,
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rainer Duffner [mailto:rainer AT ULTRA-SECURE DOT DE]
>Sent: 20 February 2003 13:09
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: [Networker] Testing the backup-functionality
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to run a test of our various backup-groups (and specifically the
>scripts that shutdown and restore Oracle et.al).
>But I don't want to do it on regular tapes, instead I want to write
>everything
>to /dev/null.
>Is this possible ?
>
>The server is running Legato 6 on NT4.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Rainer
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