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JoeBush
Level 2
10 years ago

Suspend scheduling specific clients within a policy

I have a request to suspend NetBackup for approximately 30 servers during a period of upgrade on these servers.  These servers exist in various policies with other clients, but I need to suspend only the clients requested.  I would normally suspend the policy for the time period, except there are other servers within the policies.  Is there a command line way to suspend only the servers requested for a specific period of time.

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  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    10 years ago

    Okay.. you dont have that option in netbackup directly..

    however you can put the bpclient command in cron to run at the time of schedule start time(next wednesday) 

    schedule this command in crontab to run at requier time

    bpclient  -client <client name> -update  -offline -onlineat <activate end date>

    if you would like to specify with time then you need to use unix time in command line

    bpclient -client <client_name> -update -offline -ut -onlineat <unix time stamp>

    if client is not added under the bpclient add it now and schedule the above command in corntab

    bpclient -client <client_name>  -add

     

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO104791

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  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    10 years ago

    you have an option to offline the client till the specific future date

    you can use the client offline option and make them offline

    GUI---> host properties --> Master server ---> client attributes ---> select specifiy client --> offline untill

    you can also do the same using the command bpclient

  • JoeBush's avatar
    JoeBush
    Level 2
    10 years ago

    That is true if I want to offline them now until a specific time, but the request is for a future period of time.  As an example, they want the backups disabled (suspended or whatever you want to call it) starting next Wednesday through next Saturday.   I can wait until next Wednesday and then offline them, but it would be nice to be able to issue a command now that will take of it.

  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    10 years ago

    Okay.. you dont have that option in netbackup directly..

    however you can put the bpclient command in cron to run at the time of schedule start time(next wednesday) 

    schedule this command in crontab to run at requier time

    bpclient  -client <client name> -update  -offline -onlineat <activate end date>

    if you would like to specify with time then you need to use unix time in command line

    bpclient -client <client_name> -update -offline -ut -onlineat <unix time stamp>

    if client is not added under the bpclient add it now and schedule the above command in corntab

    bpclient -client <client_name>  -add

     

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO104791

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    JoeBush
    Level 2
    10 years ago

    Thanks for the info.  That is what I was planning to do, but though it would be nice if there was a "-offlineat time" option as well.