Savepnpc

[ofladung]

Hi All,

I tried to use savepnpc the first time, but it doesn’t work. Obviously I did not set it up correctly, but I don’t know why ;-).
What I want to do is:

Run a post command after a backup which deletes an older version of a file (my colleague creates database dumps)

I tried the following to test it:

1 client in a test group, backup command is savepnpc
I Changed the group res file on the client after a first small backup:

type: savepnpc;
precmd: "echo hello";
pstcmd: "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Legato\\nsr\\res\\LegatoPostCMD.cmd";
timeout: "12:00:00";
abort precmd with group: No;

The cmd file contains (for testing):

ren C:\Program Files (x86)\Legato\nsr\res\Test.txt Test2.txt
exit

The savepnpc.log shows

3/19/2008 12:36:02 PM preclntsave: All command(s) ran successfully.
3/19/2008 12:37:02 PM pstclntsave: All savesets on the worklist are done.
3/19/2008 12:37:03 PM pstclntsave: Not all command(s) ran successfully.
3/19/2008 12:37:03 PM pstclntsave: Exited.

I’m sure the reason is obvious, but not for me and not today ;o)

Oliver

 

[a060463xyz]

I think its a windows issue.
Try :
The cmd file contains (for testing):

ren "C:\Program Files (x86)\Legato\nsr\res\Test.txt" Test2.txt
exit

There a two traps:
First there are blanks in the path of the file so you have to quote, second the destination directory is not specified.

 

[ofladung]

Ok - I changed the cmd file:

ren "C:\Program Files (x86)\Legato\nsr\res\Test.txt" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Legato\nsr\res\Test2.txt" (without line breaks)
exit

The result is the same

3/19/2008 1:33:29 PM pstclntsave: Not all command(s) ran successfully.

 

[Chapter11]

Are you sure you have to double-backslash in a .res file on Windows?

 

[ofladung]

Yes:

type: savepnpc;
precmd: "echo hello";
pstcmd: "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Legato\\nsr\\res\\LegatoPostCMD.cmd";
timeout: "12:00:00";
abort precmd with group: No;

The client runs on a Windows Server 2003 x64

 

[a060463xyz]

Again its Windows :
ren is no "real" command but intrinsic to cmd.exe
The syntax is cmd.exe/c ren ....