I just call the following perl script from the bpend script. You'll need the
resource kit installed for tlist and sc. I'm sure there are cleaner ways,
but this works.

Hope this helps,
Nate


# Nathan embery
# check for backup processes, start Norton unless we find some

my @running_processes = ();
my $backups_active = 0;

# grab list of processes into array
@running_processes = qx'tlist';

# loop through array, checking for bpbkar32
foreach(@running_processes){
        if($_ =~ /.*bpbkar32.*/){
                #backups still running
                $backups_active += 1;
        }
}

# see if we found any backups
if($backups_active == 0){
        # start service here if not already started
        $exit_val = qx'sc start "Norton AntiVirus Server"';
}       

-----Original Message-----
From: Browne, Alec [mailto:abrowne AT tigr DOT org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:47 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] stop & start anti-virus from a script?

We back up several network drives (netapp cifs shares) through one
windows client.  I would like to disable anti-virus on that client
during backups to increase the speed.  I tried setting it to only scan
inbound files but we have some automatic policies that turn the outbound
scanning back on every 5 min.

I would like to use bpstart_notify and bpend_notify to do this, but
there are several streams being backed up concurrently on the same box.
I can't put an end_notify on each stream, since the anti-virus would be
turned back on once the first stream ends, regardless of how many other
backup streams are running.  Has anyone found a workaround?  Is there a
way to check if there are current or queued backups for that server in
the bpend_notify, so that it only turns anti-virus off after the last
job completes?

Thanks
Alec Browne

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