If I'm understanding this correctly, you're using NetWorker to drive Avamar,
with the Avamar grid as the de-duplication node in the client definition.
The first question is, can you start your savegroup any earlier? Failing
that, you may be able to start the Avamar administration tasks later than 6
AM and still finish before your next backup window.
But there's a more basic question: If your savegroup regularly runs over the
limit, you might want to reconsider whether Avamar is really an appropriate
solution for your environment. You may not have enough bandwidth to make it
work. You shouldn't have to choose between finishing your backups and
running garbage collection, checkpoints, HFS check, etc.
That said, if all you want to do is terminate a savegroup that's running at
a particular time and your NetWorker server runs *nix, you can set up a cron
job to do that. The crontab entry to kill a group named mygroup at 6:00 PM
would look something like:
00 18 * * * kill `ps -ef | grep "savegrp.*mygroup" | grep -v grep | awk
'{print $2}'`
Some *nix flavors have a pkill command simplifies considerably:
00 18 * * * pkill "savegrp.*mygroup"
It will do no harm if the group isn't running when cron triggers the
command; it will just return the message, "kill: bad argument count".
Conrad Macina
Pfizer, Inc.
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:52:08 +0200, Thierry Faidherbe
<thierry.faidherbe AT FOREM DOT BE> wrote:
>You should consider using an external task manager
>such windows native one, control-m, tng, ... to start
>your group out of networker scheduler control.
>
>In your job definition, there is a "must be complete"
>or equivalent abort feature you can setup to have savegroup
>job aborted at a certain time.
>
>In way of aborting backups, shouldn't it be a better approach
>to reorganize scheduling/group parallelism or backup setup
>for having job done in right time range ?
>
>HTH
>
>TH
>
>Kind regards - Bien cordialement - Vriendelijke groeten,
>
>Thierry FAIDHERBE
>Backup/Storage & System Management
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
>Behalf Of kelly mcgary
>Sent: jeudi 24 juin 2010 15:12
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: [Networker] Backup Window Enforcement
>
>Does anyone know if there is a way to enforce the backup window, at least
>for a single group. For example, my de-dupe group sometimes run past 6am,
>which is when garbage collection runs. If that happens too many times in a
>row, Avamar gets real unhappy with me. So have you guys/gals ever found a
>way to make a group stop automatically at a certain time?
>
>
>
> Kai/Kelly McGary
>Humble, TX
>Cummins Remote Management
>
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