It will indeed run once for every image that's started.  Multiplexing
doesn't matter but multiple streams does.  

You have to code around this if that's not the behavior you want.  For this
there's a couple of environment variables that are set at script-run time.
Search the docs for STREAM_NUMBER and STREAM_COUNT.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES will start one backup per drive letter/filesystem if
"enable multiple streams" is checked.  

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:jpiszcz AT servervault DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:08 AM
To: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Cc: Harvey, Brian
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding bp_start and bp_stop.


Thanks, I just verified this in the UNIX_MediaGuideII-- thanks!

Odd though, I am not using multiplexing or multiple streams and I get
multiple e-mails (I have it send me an email when it gets called), maybe
it runs it fo reach partition of ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, I will try it for a
specific path.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com [mailto:Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:06 PM
To: Piszcz, Justin; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding bp_start and bp_stop.

it should be:

bpstart_notify  (all policies & schedules)
bpstart_notify.<policyname>  (fixed policy, all schedules in that
policy)
bpstart_notify.<policyname>.<schedulename>  (one policy, one sched in
that
policy)

bpstop_notify has the same format.

These go on the client, by the way.  Policy & schedule names are case
sensitive.

-M
-----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 Piszcz,
Justin
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:33 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding bp_start and bp_stop.


I need to backup an Oracle database and I will be using bp_start and
bp_stop.
However, I only want it to backup on a certain policy or schedule.
Would I name it bp.start_Schedule-Name?
 
Justin.