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Varma_Chiluvuri's avatar
11 years ago

Duplication Job running immediately after disk backup

We have a Lifecycle policy for exchange backup, once backup to disk is completed duplication job is starting.

We want the duplication job to start after 2 weeks.

 

Please find the parameters of duplication job

Retention Type Fixed

Retention Period two weeks

Should we need to change please suggest me.

  • I agree with Riaan, you can schedule a task in Windows on the server to disbale (inactive, in SLP terms) the SLPs before your nightly processing starts, and then schedule another task to enable (active) them after, say, 8:00am the next day.

    Inactivating/disabling the SLP does NOT affect the backup jobs' start times in any way, it only affects the subsequent duplication jobs that are currently running immediately after the backups. 

    The command is "nbstlutil inactive -lifecycle name".  You will need to run this for every SLP you want to inactivate.  If you have fewer destination storage units, it might be easier to set each of the destinations as inactive: "nbstlutil inactive -destination name". 

    See page 600 of the NetBackup 7.5 Command Reference for more info.