Pre/Post Command to stop/start services

[Rinker97]

Hi all,

Is there a way to use the Pre/Post Commands to stop some services before the backup job and then start them after the job? How would I do it? I've had some backups that take a long time and I thought if I shut down some of the services it might speed up the backups.

Also, what would be good services to stop?

Thanks

Rink

 

[stevet3]

Assuming your Running Backup Exec 9.x its in the job setup under pre/post command

 

[TheDonMiguel]

Check if you Anti-Virus Scanner does "block" your backup. Do you use the Open-File-Option from VERITAS?

 

[LFC8]

You could try and run a batch file to stop the desired services, i have just created two batch files to stop CACHE and then start it back up again once the backup has finished

 

[Rinker97]

Thanks for all of the replies. I created 2 batch files, one to stop services and one to start them. I figured out how to use the pre/post command to run them and it worked great last night. I did forget to set the flag that says to only do it on this machine and it couldn't find them when it tried to backup a second server.

Thanks again

Rink