Hi,
One way would be to enable checkpoints in your backup policies and then,
pause the jobs, about 45 minutes before the outage and, resume the jobs
after your network comes up....but you would need to test this.


jayanth


On Sat, May 13, 2006 22:24, Justin Piszcz said:
> One comment - running all fulls on the weekend is an extremely bad
> practice, if something happens on Friday, then you lose a week's worth
> of data, depending on your incremental schedule.  A better practice is
> to run Fulls each day of the week and split it up in your environment.
>  When the connection is cut the jobs should fail, but I have not done
> too much with DSSU/disk backups myself to comment on that part.
>
>
> On 5/12/06, Hillman, Eric <Eric.Hillman AT blackrock DOT com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> We start weekly backups every Friday night.  They run through Sunday.
>> There
>> is a scheduled network outage on Saturday morning between 5am and noon.
>> This will disconnect clients from the backup servers and the media
>> servers
>> from the master servers.  Can anyone recommend the best way to pause
>> these
>> jobs?  Here are the choices I'm considering:
>>
>> 1. Stop Netbackup daemons on all master and media servers Friday night
>> and
>> restart them after the network outage is done.  I believe this will not
>> allow all backups enough time to finish by Sunday night when our next
>> backup
>> window starts
>>
>> 2. Don't do anything.  I'm not sure what will happed to jobs that are
>> running including "User" database backups which get sent to the master
>> server and run on a media server when the communication between those
>> servers is gone.  Also DSSU archival to tapes may experience problems
>> when
>> communication is cut between the master server who is sending the list
>> of
>> backup images to the media server to archive to tape.
>>
>> 3. Login immediately prior to the network outage and kill all backup
>> jobs,
>> stop Netbackup deamons and restart deamons after the network is back up.
>> This has never ended cleanly.  There's always jobs that don't stop.  I
>> almost always need to do some kill -9's to get the job processes to die
>> and
>> the rest of the daemons to stop.  Also, partial images will be left on
>> DSSU's which won't get removed.  When jobs get restarted, they'll
>> eventually
>> run out of disk space because Netbackup left those partial images.  Does
>> anyone know of an easy way of cleaning out partial images on DSSU's?
>>
>> Any recommendations are helpful.  Thanks!
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