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Environment - Netbackup 6.5.5 running on sun Solaris using Calender based scheduling

Last day of December we had a situation, where we had both monthly and yearly backup scheduled to be run on the same day , and while the monthly backup was running , the yearly backup ran out of the backup window and so the yearly backup never got triggered .

When a audit was ran , we discovered that the yearly backup never ran -- So now,I was hoping that one of you Netbackup Guru's might help me with some kind of alert/monitoring script that will notify us when a particular scheduled backup which was suppose to be ran on a particular day doesn't run ?

Thanks in Advance!!!
Reds

Environment - Netbackup 6.5.5 running on sun Solaris using Calender based scheduling

Last day of December we had a situation, where we had both monthly and yearly backup scheduled to be run on the same day , and while the monthly backup was running , the yearly backup ran out of the backup window and so the yearly backup never got triggered .

When a audit was ran , we discovered that the yearly backup never ran -- So now,I was hoping that one of you Netbackup Guru's might help me with some kind of alert/monitoring script that will notify us when a particular scheduled backup which was suppose to be ran on a particular day doesn't run ?

Thanks in Advance!!!
Reds

Hi,

If you don’t get any luck to get a script, please make use of the “Exclude Dates” which works like a wonder, I’ve got exactly the same schedules whereby at the end of March I’m running a yearly backup instead of a monthly. The monthly schedule is excluded at the end of March and the yearly one kicks in.

Regards

From: veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Smitha reddy
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Environment - Netbackup 6.5.5 running on sun Solaris using Calender based scheduling

Last day of December we had a situation, where we had both monthly and yearly backup scheduled to be run on the same day , and while the monthly backup was running , the yearly backup ran out of the backup window and so the yearly backup never got triggered .

When a audit was ran , we discovered that the yearly backup never ran -- So now,I was hoping that one of you Netbackup Guru's might help me with some kind of alert/monitoring script that will notify us when a particular scheduled backup which was suppose to be ran on a particular day doesn't run ?

Thanks in Advance!!!
Reds

My understanding with calendar based backups is that only one schedule can run within a day. This has been verified with early releases of 6.5. Now in 7.1 I have seen two calendar schedules run on the same day but not at the same time. The second to run basically waited the first one to finish.

Now apparently in your case Smitha, the jobs for the second schedule failed then you should be able to catch the error )

Greg

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Peter Mosopa <Peter.Mosopa < at > multichoice.co.za ([email]Peter.Mosopa < at > multichoice.co.za[/email])> wrote:

Hi,
 
If you don’t get any luck to get a script, please make use of the “Exclude Dates” which works like a wonder, I’ve got exactly the same schedules whereby at the end of March I’m running a yearly backup instead of a monthly. The monthly schedule is excluded at the end of March and the yearly one kicks in.
 
Regards
 
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups might not be triggering!!!!


 
Environment - Netbackup 6.5.5 running on sun Solaris using Calender based scheduling

Last day of December we had a situation, where we had both monthly and yearly backup scheduled to be run on the same day , and while the monthly backup was running , the yearly backup ran out of the backup window and so the yearly backup never got triggered .

When a audit was ran , we discovered that the yearly backup never ran -- So now,I was hoping that one of you Netbackup Guru's might help me with some kind of alert/monitoring script that will notify us when a particular scheduled backup which was suppose to be ran on a particular day doesn't run ?

Thanks in Advance!!!
Reds



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What you can do now, is to find these monthly backup images and change the retention to the yearly retention.

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My understanding with calendar based backups is that only one schedule can run within a day. This has been verified with early releases of 6.5. Now in 7.1 I have seen two calendar schedules run on the same day but not at the same time. The second to run basically waited the first one to finish.

Now apparently in your case Smitha, the jobs for the second schedule failed then you should be able to catch the error )

Greg
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Peter Mosopa <Peter.Mosopa < at > multichoice.co.za ([email]Peter.Mosopa < at > multichoice.co.za[/email])> wrote:
Hi,

If you don’t get any luck to get a script, please make use of the “Exclude Dates” which works like a wonder, I’ve got exactly the same schedules whereby at the end of March I’m running a yearly backup instead of a monthly. The monthly schedule is excluded at the end of March and the yearly one kicks in.

Regards

From: veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu ([email]veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu[/email]) [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu ([email]veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu[/email])] On Behalf Of Smitha reddy
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To: veritas-bu < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu ([email]veritas-bu < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu[/email])
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups might not be triggering!!!!



Environment - Netbackup 6.5.5 running on sun Solaris using Calender based scheduling

Last day of December we had a situation, where we had both monthly and yearly backup scheduled to be run on the same day , and while the monthly backup was running , the yearly backup ran out of the backup window and so the yearly backup never got triggered .

When a audit was ran , we discovered that the yearly backup never ran -- So now,I was hoping that one of you Netbackup Guru's might help me with some kind of alert/monitoring script that will notify us when a particular scheduled backup which was suppose to be ran on a particular day doesn't run ?

Thanks in Advance!!!
Reds




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To get around this (multiple calendar backups are weighted the same in the nbpem scheduler) I have set all of my less frequent backups to trigger 10 minutes earlier.
For example:
normal daily backup is 10pm-2am (frequency based 8 hours)
monthly backup 10pm-2am (calendar, last day of the month)
yearly 9:50pm-2am (calendar, last day of the year)

this works well for me.

Cheers,
Nic

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My understanding with calendar based backups is that only one schedule can run within a day. This has been verified with early releases of 6.5. Now in 7.1 I have seen two calendar schedules run on the same day but not at the same time. The second to run basically waited the first one to finish.

Now apparently in your case Smitha, the jobs for the second schedule failed then you should be able to catch the error )

Greg
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Peter Mosopa <Peter.Mosopa < at > multichoice.co.za ([email]Peter.Mosopa < at > multichoice.co.za[/email])> wrote:
Hi,

If you don’t get any luck to get a script, please make use of the “Exclude Dates” which works like a wonder, I’ve got exactly the same schedules whereby at the end of March I’m running a yearly backup instead of a monthly. The monthly schedule is excluded at the end of March and the yearly one kicks in.

Regards

From: veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu ([email]veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu[/email]) [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu ([email]veritas-bu-bounces < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu[/email])] On Behalf Of Smitha reddy
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Alert! Backups might not be triggering!!!!



Environment - Netbackup 6.5.5 running on sun Solaris using Calender based scheduling

Last day of December we had a situation, where we had both monthly and yearly backup scheduled to be run on the same day , and while the monthly backup was running , the yearly backup ran out of the backup window and so the yearly backup never got triggered .

When a audit was ran , we discovered that the yearly backup never ran -- So now,I was hoping that one of you Netbackup Guru's might help me with some kind of alert/monitoring script that will notify us when a particular scheduled backup which was suppose to be ran on a particular day doesn't run ?

Thanks in Advance!!!
Reds




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I schedule my longer retention backups for the same time slot. In that case, the scheduler will always pick the schedule that hasn't run recently, it won't run both. For that yearly retention schedule I set it up to perform Multiple Copies, and then have 1 copy - the Primary - with my normal monthly backup retention, and the other one for my yearly backup with the required retention on that one. I have found the inline copy does not take any longer than the normal backup.

Hope this helps.

Linda B.

reddi72 <nbu-forum < at > backupcentral.com> 24/05/2012 5:33 pm >>>
Environment - Netbackup 6.5.5 running on sun Solaris using Calender based scheduling

Last day of December we had a situation, where we had both monthly and yearly backup scheduled to be run on the same day , and while the monthly backup was running , the yearly backup ran out of the backup window and so the yearly backup never got triggered .

When a audit was ran , we discovered that the yearly backup never ran -- So now,I was hoping that one of you Netbackup Guru's might help me with some kind of alert/monitoring script that will notify us when a particular scheduled backup which was suppose to be ran on a particular day doesn't run ?

Thanks in Advance!!!
Reds

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Thanks for all the responses!!! Currently , i am not looking at how to get around this ,But, How to catch such situations proactively and get alerted ?

I am giving a scenario where monthly and yearly backups run on every First Sunday of the month. What you can do is write a script which will run every monday morning and which will check backups for that particular client which ran in last 24 hours. If it doesn't find the yearly schedule it will send a mail to the user with the warning.

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 7:11 PM, reddi72 <nbu-forum < at > backupcentral.com ([email]nbu-forum < at > backupcentral.com[/email])> wrote:
Thanks for all the responses!!! Currently , i am not looking at how to get around this ,But, How to catch such situations proactively and  get alerted ?

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Thanks nbuser!!! That sounds like something that might work in my case - Do you happen to have a script that i can use ?

Yes sure. I will send you soon.

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Thanks nbuser!!! That sounds like something that might work in my case - Do you happen to have a script that i can use ?

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Smitha,

Below is the script. Try it and let me know if it works for you.

bpdbjobs | grep -i policyname | grep -i monthly > monthly
bpdbjobs | grep -i policyname | grep -i yearly > yearly


if [ -s "monthly" ]
then
mailx -s "Monthly backups ran successfully for policy policyname" abc < at > xyz.com ([email]abc < at > xyz.com[/email]) < monthly
else
mailx -s "Monthly backups did not ran for policy policyname" abc < at > xyz.com ([email]abc < at > xyz.com[/email]) < monthly
fi

if [ -s "yearly" ]
then
mailx -s "Yearly backups ran successfully for policy policyname" abc < at > xyz.com ([email]abc < at > xyz.com[/email]) < yearly
else
mailx -s "Yearly backups did not ran for policy policyname" abc < at > xyz.com ([email]abc < at > xyz.com[/email]) < yearly
fi


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Yes sure. I will send you soon.

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Thanks nbuser!!! That sounds like something that might work in my case - Do you happen to have a script that i can use ?

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