Yeah i was thinking of doing something like that, or changing my 
/etc/hosts so a network time out happened to backup server. I just 
thought of this as a dirty way.

I was wondering if there was something like bpclclient -client <client> 
-disable -allpolicies
or something you know.

Ill go down the bp.conf route unless theres other suggestions

I do think it has practical uses though as maybe you dont want a backup 
to be ran one night due to maintenance on a machine and if the 
maintenance is scheduled for a time which is smack in the middle of the 
backup window backups could be running and problems more likely to occur.

Cheers
Dave



Jorgensen, Bill wrote:

>Dave:
>
>I would think that changing the bp.conf on the client would do the
>trick. I do not see this as optimal because the server will go through
>the timeout period as well as the retries to connect. Not a perfect
>solution because it could impact backup windows. Good question.
>
>HTH,
>
>Bill
>
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dave
>Markham
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>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disable a client for one night
>
>Does anyone know a nifty way of disabling a client for one night without
>
>having to remove it and re add it to each policy? Im running netbackup 5
>
>on solaris 8
>
>I am doing some scheduled work on a solaris client and it would be nice 
>to not start it running rather than just take the legs from under the 
>backup job.
>
>Dave
>
>P.S the url i have for the archives is this 
>http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/  does anyone know of
>
>an easier URL which can be searched?
>
>Cheers
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Yeah i was