In each of our divisional offices, I have a stand alone Networker Server (version 7.0, Win2K), with a single AIT-3 drive. The backups work great - except when the local IT contact forgets to put a tape in the drive, obviously. The savegroups then run all night and into the day until I stop the groups manually, or someone puts a "writeable volume" into the drive. I try to avoid the latter so that performance is not affected during the day. What I would like to happen is for the groups to fail after waiting say 1 hour for a writeable volume. Legato tech support says there is no such way, except maybe via scripting - which I know very little if anything about. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Calling all scripting Guru's
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Is the group started automatically ?
If so you could script a "Group stop" everyday at 6 o'clock for example and launch it via a crontab (or task scheduler for windows).
To do this you'll have to run the "nsradmin -i inputfile" command.
You should create a file as input of this command, this file will tell all commands to run and must contain something like :
====================================
. type:NSR group;name:GROUPNAME
update stop now:true
y
=====================================
Replace GROUPNAME by the real group name.
Hope this helps.
If so you could script a "Group stop" everyday at 6 o'clock for example and launch it via a crontab (or task scheduler for windows).
To do this you'll have to run the "nsradmin -i inputfile" command.
You should create a file as input of this command, this file will tell all commands to run and must contain something like :
====================================
. type:NSR group;name:GROUPNAME
update stop now:true
y
=====================================
Replace GROUPNAME by the real group name.
Hope this helps.
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I don't agree that it would make more sense. If I were to do it that way, I would have one server controlling literally hundreds of clients. If a server goes down, I'd rather have only 1 of my divisions affected as opposed to the entire country. While I'm totally onboard with a cetralized system, it's just not that feasible for my particular situation at this time.
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