Ignite Backup Script

[itrc55]

Hi,

I have 173 HP-UX servers, currently i am taking backup using cron job, but unfortunately i don't know if os backup taken successfully or no, for that i need your support to provide me with simple script to send me mail after backup done in these three status

backup success
failure
success with warning

Thanks

[Dennis Handly]

>script to send me mail after backup done in these three status

Are these well defined exit status codes?  Or do you need to scan stderr?

[Bill Hassell]

Ignite has 3 separate return codes:

           0    No warnings or failures occurred; the execution completed successfully.
           1    A failure occurred.
           2    A warning occurred.

Now a warning may be a problem with the system itself (unmounted filesystems, bad filenames, etc) which creates a backup but a subsequent restore may have some issues. So each non-zero return needs to be investigated. I wrote the enclosed script to simplify the task and to also log the results to syslog (using facility local2). This script can optionally email the results when there is a failure/warning, or add -v and success will also be emailed. You can create a separate logfile for local by adding local2.none

[itrc55]

Hi,

Thanks Mr. Bill Hassell for your support, But can you tell me what is the things you want me to edit in this script ? if the ignite server IP is 15.0.18.63 and e-mai is test@abc.com and only need VG00 for backup.

where i edit the script like below

mnr -s 15.0.18.63 -e test@abc.com -n 2 -p -v

and when i run the script i facing these message

#./mnr.sh

-s <server> is required
=======================

Usage: mnr -s 15.0.18.63 -e test@abc.com -n 2 -p -v
where:
-s = Ignite server hostname or IP address (required)
-e = email address for notifications
-n <qty> = number of archives to keep - default=2
-p = run command in preview mode
-v = verbose (email for success too)
-x = directories to be excluded from vg00

Logs results to /var/adm/mnr.log, notice to syslog (local2)

please your support thanks.

[Bill Hassell]

There is nothing to edit in the script. However, the script tries to validate the IP address or hostname. You can trace the program to see the test:

    TRACEME=1 mnr -s 15.0.18.63 -e test@abc.com -n 2 -p -v

The error indicates that the IP address did not get parsed. I have tried to duplicate your error but cannot get the error message (which occurs when -z $IGNITESERVER is true). In other words, the variable is testing as zero length. Post the results of the TRACME comand line.

[itrc55]

Hi,

Thanks for your response, but can you send me the line number on this scripts you should me fill it with server IP and email and excluded filesystem.

Because I fill one line # 28, and this is the output of trace command

#ll
total 96
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys              5 Jun 19 08:45  9999
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys           1824 Jun 18 11:54 ignite-tmp.sh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys           1806 Jun 19 13:41 ignite.sh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys           6394 Jun 20 09:13 mnr.sh
-rw-r--r--   1 root       sys             35 Jun 18 15:19 test
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys           1263 Jun 19 09:06 test.sh

# TRACEME=1 mnr -s 15.0.18.63 -e test@abc.com -n 2 -p -v
sh: mnr:  not found.

# TRACEME=1 mnr.sh -s 15.0.18.63 -e test@abc.com -n 2 -p -v
sh: mnr.sh:  not found.

Thanks again

[Dennis Handly]

>-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys   mnr.sh
># TRACEME=1 mnr.sh -s 15.0.18.63 -e test@abc.com -n 2 -p -v
>sh: mnr.sh:  not found.

This is probably shells 101.  Since "." isn't in $PATH, you need to use "./":

TRACEME=1 ./mnr.sh -s 15.0.18.63 -e test@abc.com -n 2 -p -v

[itrc55]

Hi,

check the output of TRACEME command on the attached file.

and still i facing the same issue when i try to run this script

#./mnr.sh

-s <server> is required

=======================

Usage: mnr -s <15.0.18.63> [-e test@abc.com] -p -v -x exclude=/u02
where:
-s = Ignite server hostname or IP address (required)
-e = email address for notifications
-n <qty> = number of archives to keep - default=2
-p = run command in preview mode
-v = verbose (email for success too)
-x = directories to be excluded from vg00

Logs results to /var/adm/mnr.log, notice to syslog (local2)

Note: i added my server IP and my mail on this line (28) on the script, please tell me if i need to edit other line.

Usage: mnr -s <15.0.18.63> [-e test@abc.com] [-n <qty>] [-p] [-v] [-x exclude=/u02]

Thanks

[Bill Hassell]

I'm a bit confused. The trace output shows that the script ran just fine.

Your example in red seems to indicate that you entered nothing on the command line:

#./mnr.sh

-s <server> is required

This script is not interactive, it requires command line parameters.

It is designed to be used in batch mode such as a cron job.