True.

I should have completed my thought in my original email.

The point I was getting at was, yes, it looks like  USER type schedule, but
why?

Is there a DB Agent in place here?  It didnt' seem so from the original
email.  So, my real question was why not have a FULL/INCR schedule with no
window that you can "kick-off" at will and then support mutliple datastreams
from the class config.

If the response is "the file list changes".  Then I would suggest that the
process that generates this .dat file list (dirlist_for_db.dat) simply write
to an include list.

include_list.policy.schedule

The file list for the policy can include one file somewhere

/usr/openv/netbackup/version

and have an exclude list

exclude_list.policy.schedule

that contains /usr/openv/netbackup/version in it.

This will achieve what he is looking for....but as you can see I wanted to
ease him into this since he did mention that he was a DBA and not an NBU
admin...

:-)

David

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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Bass [mailto:daniel AT mbi.co DOT il]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 12:09 PM
To: David A. Chapa; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 3.4 - How can I write to multiple tape
drives when running bp backup using the -f filelist parameter



They are running bpbackup with -f option and the backup finished
successfully... So, it must be schedule with type USER :)

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 4:50 PM
To: Geraci, Phil; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 3.4 - How can I write to multiple tape
drives when running bp backup using the -f filelist parameter




What schedule type is daily_full?:

FULL
INCR
DIFF INCR
USER

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David A. Chapa
DataStaff, Inc.
312-683-1144
http://www.BackupScripts.com
"where script happens"
Post your questions in our forums

Co-Author of
Implementing Backup and Recovery:
The Readiness Guide for the Enterprise
published by John Wiley and Sons
A Veritas Solution Series Publication
ISBN:0471227145
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Geraci,
Phil
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:58 PM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 3.4 - How can I write to multiple tape drives
when running bp backup using the -f filelist parameter


NBU 3.4
SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise-10000 How
can I concurrently write to multiple tape drives when running bpbackup
using the -f filelist parameter.
>From Unix Korn shell script the following command is being issued:
        /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup -w -c inv_sys_dbbkup -s
daily_full -L dbbkup.log -f dirlist_for_db.dat The dirlist_for_db.dat
file contains a list of directories where the related database file
reside: /dbf/dbredo01/ind1b/ /dbf/dbredo02/ind1b/ /dbf/dbredo03/ind1b/
/dbf/dbredo04/ind1b/ /dbf/ua09/ind1b/ /dbf/ua10/ind1b/ /dbf/ua11/ind1b/
/dbf/ua12/ind1b/ When this backup is executed it uses a single stream
writing to one tape drive. Is there a way to get this backup to
concurrently write multiple streams to more than one tape drive at a
time? Excuse my ignorance. I'm a DBA and do not have access to any
NetBackup manuals. The backup team that is responsible for this tells me
there is no way to do this. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Phil Geraci
847-402-9454
pgeraci AT allstate DOT com

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