topic Script required in Operating System - HP-UX

Script required

Silvance Daniel — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:15:08 GMT

Hi

I am in phase of automating the Unix backup reporting in various unix platform, which is taken through tar, cpio,dump,vdump,ufsdump.

Requirement: if I take a backup through a sctipt using tar and schedule it through crontab in several system in the network, I should have an another script which will check on each system in the network and provide a csv output regarding the tar success state and at the same time it should able to give the detail of the directory which got backed up.

I know some workaround is required to make my requirement possible. If anybody have a similar kind of script done or if you have any suggestion or ready to help in this regard please reply back

Regards
S. Daniel

Re: Script required

Peter Godron — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:23:26 GMT

Hi,
rather than have scripts checking across networks, why don't you either use a NFS mounted report directory or (as we do) get the backup jobs to send an email to admin on completion, reporting pass/fail in the subject line.

That way when you come into the office in the morning, with one look you can see what backup has run / failed.

Re: Script required

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:22:56 GMT

You should really look into a better, platform independent backup system such as Data Protector. This will do all your backups on UNIX, Windows, ... and do all the reporting that you want. It can be controlled from one serve and if you have a tape library, restores are simply point-and-click.