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Re: [Veritas-bu] How to backup to multiple drives

2009-02-19 16:36:28
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How to backup to multiple drives
From: "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT staples DOT com>
To: <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:25:54 -0700
Sorry - bad news on this.

NEW_STREAM is only good in policy include lists.

NEW_STREAM
/VAULT01
NEW_STREAM
/VAULT02

..or you can get creative with wildcards...

NEW_STREAM
/VAULT0[0-4]/folder[0-4]
NEW_STREAM
/VAULT0[5-9]/folder[0-4]
NEW_STREAM
/VAULT0[0-4]/folder[5-9]
NEW_STREAM
/VAULT0[5-9]/folder[5-6]

My filer backups are full of the most gawdawful patterns you've ever
scene in an attempt to make roughly equal-sized streams.

You could, then, call the policy on-demand from your master server with
the "bpbackup -i" option.  This lets you make a fixed, dependable policy
but do a backup on demand rather than on-schedule.



Otherwise, you're doing two user-directed (ubak) jobs with two command
lines - no problem with that really, though, since it'll behave the way
you want

bpbackup -p <pol> -s <sched> -f <file-of-filenames-1>
bpbackup -p <pol> -s <sched> -f <file-of-filenames-2>

where "file-of-filenames-1" contains:
/path/dir1
/path/dir2
/path/dir3

(and similar for the second)

...or...

bpbackup -p <pol> -s <sched> /path/dir1 /path/dir2 /path/dir3
bpbackup -p <pol> -s <sched> /path/dir4 /path/dir5 /path/dir6

Note - it's "-f file-of-filenames" or "path.. path.. path.." on the
bpbackup line.  Can't mix and match formats.

HTH 
-M

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to backup to multiple drives


The NEW_STREAM is interesting and I have figured out how to backup
seperate files to two different drives from command line..I should
mention I am using CentOS5 as my Server, media server and client with
NBU 6.5 and I strictly use command line to do my backups directly from
the client.

>>From linux command line I can issue:
./bpbackup -p Policy_name -s User -S NEOVTS08 -h NEOVTS08 NEW_STREAM -f
/VAULT01/folder1/file1 NEW_STREAM -f /VAULT02/folder2/file2 -L
/tmp/progresslog -w 0

This will backup these two files to two seperate drives in my library.
But I am having difficulty figuring out how to give it a file list
instead of the individual files. 

for example:
./bpbackup -p Policy_name -s User -S NEOVTS08 -h NEOVTS08 NEW_STREAM -f
/tmp/filelist1 NEW_STREAM -f /tmp/filelist2 -L /tmp/progresslog -w 0

where filelist 1 has 
/VAULT01/folder1/file1
/VAULT01/folder1/file2
/VAULT01/folder1/file3 
ect..
 

and filelist2
/VAULT02/folder2/file1
/VAULT02/folder2/file2
/VAULT02/folder2/file3 
ect..

My problem is this does not backup correctly and only uses one drive
compared to the first example using the direct path. I am guessing my
syntax is incorrect here using a filelist...anyone familiar with command
line backups using NEW_STREAM?

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