Networker

Re: [Networker] Stopping Groups from the command line

2004-01-30 16:02:48
Subject: Re: [Networker] Stopping Groups from the command line
From: "robert.maiello AT thomson DOT com" <robert.maiello AT THOMSON DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:01:30 -0500
Umm,  -s for the nsrjb command specifies the controlling server when nsrjb
is run on a storage node.  I  believe you meant the nsr_shutdown command?

Does this command indeed kill all savegroups and saves but leave networker
up and running??


Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare


On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:17:00 -0600, Chad Smykay <csmykay AT RACKSPACE DOT COM> 
wrote:

>What you probably want is the following command:
>
>"nsrjb -s"
>
>        -s     Terminates any  savegrp(1)  (and  nsrexec(1))  pro-
>              cesses.
>
>This would really be the best thing to do for ALL groups.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>
>Chad Smykay, RHCE, LCNA
>Systems Storage Administrator
>Rackspace Managed Hosting (TM)
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT 
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>Behalf Of Davina Treiber
>Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:02 AM
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [Networker] Stopping Groups from the command line
>
>Paul Hansson wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am using NetWorker 6.2, running on Windows 2000 server, and I am try
>> to write a script which will gracefully close down NetWorker if the
>> power fails and my server goes onto UPS power.
>>
>> What I want to do is issue a command to stop any running groups,
>> unload the current volume, then stop the NetWorker service and finally
>> shutdown my server.
>>
>> Unloading the tape I can achieve with nsrjb, stopping the service I
>> can achieve with NET STOP, but how do I cancel any groups which may be
>> running prior to this.
>>
>> I imagine that I cannot unload the tape while a group is running, and
>> so that will cause my whole script to fail, and leave NetWorker
>> running (and possible accessing the tape), when my UPS software shuts down
>the server.
>>
>> Has anyone got any ideas or pointers as to how I can achieve this?
>>
>
>You can do an nsradmin command such as:
>
>print type:NSR group
>update stop now: True
>
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