Ok well that's pants!

But I may have a work around - I have a routine that I can run during the
bpstart script which I will implement tonight - am I right in believing that
I do NOT NEED to use an end script if I do not want to?

If this is correct, I can run a routine in the start script to do what I
need to do and restart the services in approx 1 hour later.

Thanks

Simon Weaver 
Technical Support 
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium 
Tel: 02392-708598 

Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net 



-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org] 
Sent: 11 January 2006 12:38
To: WEAVER, Simon
Cc: List Veritas List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Win21k script to stop AV service during backup &
restart when fin ished


On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:13:07AM -0000, WEAVER, Simon wrote:
> Ok I got the script to work, which is great - only one problem I see - 
> the client has multiple paritions and is being backed up using ALL 
> LOCAL DRIVES
> - although the services stop fine, it appears that as soon as one of the
> stream finishes, the services are bought back up, therefore when it comes
to
> backing up the partition where Trend lives, the files are being skipped!
>  
> I could use a sleep command to delay things, but is there a command to 
> add to tell NBU to use the script when the final stream ends?

Nope - it's up to you to keep track of the streams.  You're running into the
classic problem that database admins have been fighting for years - you want
to do something before any of the jobs start (e.g. shut down a
database) and then something after the end of the last (e.g. start the
database back up).  There is no good way of making this work with
multi-stream backups.  The problems get uglier when you have various
failures in one or more of the streams and they get rescheduled.

I've heard that NetBackup fixed this in 6 and gave us additional hooks to
solve this problem but I haven't seen 6 yet.

        .../Ed

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