Hi Bill,
In my case I solved it by creating 28 schedules FULL_01 till FULL28 with a
full backup on that day of the month and level 5 once a week and incremental
on any other day.
I then assigning a whole server to a particular day, if they are not to big.
If they are to big I assign individual savesets of the server to a particular
day.
e.g server1 is a small one so is server2 but server3 is big.
FULL_01: server1: All
FULL_02: server2: All
FULL_03: server3: C:\
FULL_04: server3: D:\
FULL_05: server3: E:\
in this way each server has a full backup once a month (a requirement here)
I can do this as I plan beforehand that volumes do not become to big for the
backup window between 21:00 and 07:00.
I also created a small script that suggests which schedule has the least
amount of clients. This helps me balancing the load a bit between days.
Maarten
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:46, Bill Hewitt wrote:
> In an ideal world I would like to split up the full backups of my
> fileservers such that they back up a few filesystems
> a night rather than all at one go.
> Can anybody suggest ways to script this ?
> One approach is to use the networker scheduling to run a full backup
> every night and then use nsradmin to change the
> list of save sets that are going to be backed up on a daily basis i.e.
>
> on the fist of the month, generate a list of filesystems to be backed up
> each night, take 3 filesystems from the to of the list and put them into
> the savesets attribute for that group on a client
> remove successfuly backed up filesystems from the list.
>
> editing a clients resourses automatically by script isn't that easy if a
> client is in more than one group as the resorses for that client are
> repeateded for each group.
>
> The second option is not to use the networker scheduling at all, but to
> run save, or savefs from a script.
>
> Do other folk do this kind of thing? If they do, what approach do they
> use ?
>
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