[Veritas-bu] Starting a backup job manually from remote?
2007-01-09 12:22:25
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[Veritas-bu] Starting a backup job manually from remote? |
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wts at maine.edu (Wayne T Smith) |
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Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:22:25 -0500 |
Through v5.1 there is nothing ... I don't know about 6.0.
I more or less have done what you are asking by creating a back-office
web pages that do various functions on the master server. One of these
functions is to start a "manual backup". The hardest part is securing
the process.
cheers, wayne
Alexander Skwar wrote, in part, on 1/9/2007 11:46 AM:
> Hello!
>
> With NetBackup 5.1 on a Solaris master server, is it somehow
> possible to start a backup policy manually from a remote client?
>
> What I'd like to do:
>
> I'd like to setup a Unix cron job somewhere (ie. not necessarily
> on the master server). This cron job should do some stuff (like
> populating a directory) and then make Veritas NetBackup start the
> backup and after the backup, it should cleanup the directory which
> has just been backed up. I fear that I cannot use the Veritas
> NetBackup scheduler (cf. thread "Pre-/Post-Exec scripts with
> NetBackup 5.1?").
>
> Thanks a lot for any help,
>
> Alexander Skwar
>
> PS: If this message comes in twice: Sorry about that. I sent
> it through gmane about 2 hours ago, and it yet hasn't shown
> up :(
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