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TH10A380
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17 years ago

mounting volumes via pre command

hello forum members,
 
issue:
we want to backup volumes which have to be mounted at the scheduled job via a pre command.
 
when Backup Exec starts a scheduled job it first veryfies the selection-list to back up and find there is just a Volume sys: currently mounted (The Volumes which have to be backup are dismounted at this stage).
 
Issue:
Backup Exec does not backup Volumes wich will be mounted via a pre command which successfully mounts additional volumes to the system. The job ends up in an error:
 
Error determining next backup target. Selections for Server1.Netware file system/ Server1/volume1: will be skipped. Found 0 devices.
Error nothing was found to backup.
 
Background: the Storage devices/volumes are EVA-Storage Mirrored-Clones which will be just temporary accessible during daytime (6:00 am - 6:00 pm) at the Backup-Server via FibreChannel.
 
any help appreciated
thanks Michael
 
 
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  • criley's avatar
    criley
    Moderator
    17 years ago
    Have you considered using CRON to do this?

    http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/2939440.html
  • TH10A380's avatar
    TH10A380
    Level 2
    17 years ago
    Hello Chris,
    yes we thought about cron but our Novell Consulting Team is afraid to get handling issues by our Novell Operating Admins. So they are not happy with a cron solution.
     
    But we got a hint from one of our Senior Employee to solve the issue with cascading jobs:
    First job is a dummy job ( i.e. backup SYS:) with a pre command to mount the Volume1.
    Second job is the job to backup Volume1 with a pre command which mounts volume2 ...
     
    Not very elegant but it should work and i guess there is currently no other way.
     
    Thanks and greetings
    Michael