We too have found this to be a need at unique points
in time.  I have brought this up to NB Engineers and
their comments back were "There will be a means to
accomplish this at the policy/client level in..... 
You guessed it, a future release.  As of now we just
move the client to a policy entitled "Suspended"



--- Dave Markham <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
> >     Bill Jorgensen
> >     CSG Systems, Inc.
> >     (w) 303.200.3282
> >     (p) 303.947.9733
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
> >     UNIX... Spoken with hushed and
> >     reverent tones.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >-----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 Dave
> >Markham
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:29 AM
> >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
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