Let's face it. Sometimes backups fail. Your job, if you chose to accept it, is to troubleshoot and retry the backup. When you have hundreds of policies it is hard to determine which backups are forbidden to run during business hours. It's only a matter of time before you errantly submit a manual backup of a client that is NOT supposed to be backed up during business hours.
The trick is that you need to keep Netbackup running as normal, but you do not want specific policies to run. This is what I do to keep certain backup jobs from being submitted during business hours.
# crontab -l
0 6 * * 1-5 /usr/local/scripts/policy-deactivate.sh
0 17 * * 1-5 /usr/local/scripts/policy-activate.sh
# cat /usr/local/scripts/policy-deactivate.sh
#! /bin/sh
for i in `/usr/bin/cat /usr/local/scripts/policylist`
do
/usr/bin/echo $i
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplinfo $i -modify -inactive
done
# cat /usr/local/scripts/policy-activate.sh
#! /bin/sh
for i in `/usr/bin/cat /usr/local/scripts/policylist`
do
/usr/bin/echo $i
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplinfo $i -modify -active
done
# cat /usr/local/scripts/policylist
Prod_Messaging_Clus1
Prod_Messaging_Clus2
Prod_Messaging_Clus3
Prod_Messaging_Clus4
Prod_connect_BCV
