NWRecover 1

[renault5]

Hi all ,
please forgive my ignorance but with Legato I am used to running operations through the gui , what I would like to do to speed things up is to be able to run a script
that mimics the script sent to the backup server after the 'start recover' option has been selected from the nwrecover menu - I regularly do restores from a production machine to a test machine and am growing bored of going through the menus to change client , select browse time and selecting directories and files to restore , the only parameter I ever have to change is the date from which the restore is to run.

Client DEC Alpha Tru64 (Ultrx)
Backup server NT

Thanks in advance

Renault5

 

[arneb]

Hi Renault5
You find all you are asking for in the "recover" man pages. If you are familiar with shell-scripts (you are working on Tru64?) you can make a script something like this:

#!/bin/sh
# first some logic to read in parameters:
echo "Name of file or directory"
# A full pathname to the file/dir.
read rec_file

echo "Date to recover from"
#must be a legal networker time spec (see nsr_getdate)
read rec_date

# start recover with parameters
recover -c [fromclient] -R [toclient] << EOF
changetime $rec_date
add $rec_file
recover
EOF

!!this is just an idea!! I have not tested this particullar script, but I have used many of the Networker commands in shell-scripts for automating systems management.

regards
arneb

 

[renault5]

Thanks for the tip - I will work on it.

Regards

Renault5