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rookie11
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10 years ago

calender schedule

Hello All

NBU master+media all at 7.6.0.1 I have close to around 50 policies. all of them have calender schedule for yearly backups. I need to verify their annual calender schedule. It should have January 1st week date. I thought small script would do the job. output like policy name and Calendar sched: Enabled then dates. I have used bppllist numerous times before. But when I ran bppllist output do not show specific dates which are actually present in policies. I check in GUI, policies do have calender schedule present in them. But why it do not appear in command output. Hence i am unable to write a script.

e.g 

nbuapp3:/home/maintenance # bppllist Clients_SYS -U | more
------------------------------------------------------------

Policy Name:       Clients_SYS

  Policy Type:         MS-Windows
  Active:              yes

  Include:  ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

  Schedule:              Full_Annual
    Type:                Full Backup
    Maximum MPX:         1
    Synthetic:           0
    Checksum Change Detection: 0
    PFI Recovery:        0
    Retention Level:     0 (15 days)
    Number Copies:       1
    Fail on Error:       0
    Residence:           nbuapp1
    Volume Pool:         (same as policy volume pool)
    Server Group:        (same as specified for policy)
    Calendar sched: Enabled
    Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy:         1
    Schedule indexing:     0
    Daily Windows:
          Saturday   20:50:00  -->  Monday     02:20:00

 

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  • watsons's avatar
    watsons
    10 years ago

    A bppllist or bpplsched (with -L) will give you something like this for calendar-based schedule:

      Calendar sched: Enabled
        Allowed to retry after run day
       Included Dates-----------
          Monday, Week 1
          Monday, Week 2
          Monday, Week 3
          Monday, Week 4
          Monday, Week 5
       Excluded Dates----------
          No specific exclude dates entered
          No exclude days of week entered

     

    But it won't give you the exact date as this is calculated internally by nbpem. As SymTerry pointed out, the nbpemreq predict can give you the next (calculated) run date.  

  • revarooo's avatar
    revarooo
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    try with the -L option instead of -U, no guarantee it will work (I don't ave a system in front of me).

  • SymTerry's avatar
    SymTerry
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    You could try nbpemreq -predict_all -date <mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS> [-policy_filter <policy>]

    Page 569 of the NetBackup 7.5 commands guide will give you more information:

    -predict | -predict_all

    Helps determine when a policy is to be run. The displayed information is based on the currenttime and a future date. Time is indicated by mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS or by a UNIX timestamp. This option also helps determine why a policy has not run. The difference between the options is the output format and the amount of data presented. It shows the backups that are eligible to run, but it does not indicate which jobs are to run at a specific time.It checks for an open window for the backup, but does not reflect any ofthe exclude dates that might be setfor the schedule.

     

  • watsons's avatar
    watsons
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    A bppllist or bpplsched (with -L) will give you something like this for calendar-based schedule:

      Calendar sched: Enabled
        Allowed to retry after run day
       Included Dates-----------
          Monday, Week 1
          Monday, Week 2
          Monday, Week 3
          Monday, Week 4
          Monday, Week 5
       Excluded Dates----------
          No specific exclude dates entered
          No exclude days of week entered

     

    But it won't give you the exact date as this is calculated internally by nbpem. As SymTerry pointed out, the nbpemreq predict can give you the next (calculated) run date.