Re: [Veritas-bu] Ad-hoc NDMP backups?

2008-06-13 Thread A Darren Dunham
Still creating some scripts for these NDMP backups, this is the first time I've worked with bpplinfo much. I'd prefer the policy be kept inactive until I need it, so I'd like the script to enable it. I'd never realized that running bpplinfo -set will *change* any unspecified option to the defaul

Re: [Veritas-bu] Ad-hoc NDMP backups?

2008-06-12 Thread Rosenkoetter, Gabriel
2, 2008 12:17 AM To: A Darren Dunham Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Ad-hoc NDMP backups? I do this all the time. Create a policy as you would normally, but instead of properly defining a schedule, give it no hours during any day to run, and make it calendar based wi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Ad-hoc NDMP backups?

2008-06-12 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:17:15PM -0700, Jon Bousselot wrote: > I do this all the time. > > Create a policy as you would normally, but instead of properly defining > a schedule, give it no hours during any day to run, and make it calendar > based with a run day selected from a day two or three

Re: [Veritas-bu] Ad-hoc NDMP backups?

2008-06-11 Thread Jon Bousselot
I do this all the time. Create a policy as you would normally, but instead of properly defining a schedule, give it no hours during any day to run, and make it calendar based with a run day selected from a day two or three weeks ago. (like June 1, 2008) Any time you need to run it, just do a

[Veritas-bu] Ad-hoc NDMP backups?

2008-06-09 Thread A Darren Dunham
I have the occasional need for "one-time" backups of some NDMP data. I can do the backup by setting up a policy, doing a manual backup, then removing the policy. Is there any way of doing a manual NDMP backup without setting up a policy? Thanks! -- Darren _