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[Networker] scheduling full backups for a set of machines.

2006-03-13 09:49:06
Subject: [Networker] scheduling full backups for a set of machines.
From: Bill Hewitt <bill AT INF.ED.AC DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:46:18 +0000
In an ideal world I would like to split up the full backups of my
fileservers such that they back up a few filesystems
a night rather than all at one go.
Can anybody suggest ways to script this ?
One approach is to use the networker scheduling to run a full backup
every night and then use nsradmin to change the
list of save sets that are going to be backed up on a daily basis i.e.

on the fist of the month, generate a list of filesystems to be backed up
each night, take 3 filesystems from the to of the list and put them into
the savesets attribute for that group on a client
remove successfuly backed up filesystems from the list.

editing a clients resourses automatically by script isn't that easy if a
client is in more than one group as the resorses for that client are
repeateded for each group.

The second option is not to use the networker scheduling at all, but to
run save, or savefs from a script.

Do other folk do this kind of thing? If they do, what approach do they
use ?

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