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EMAIL backup Completion Notices
Does NetWorker have an Email Client?
Are they thinking of making one available anytime soon?
To date I have for sometime utilized BLAT for my Backup Completion Notices, something which has to be considered, installed and managed outside the boundaries of the NetWorker application.
Something to be thinking about, when you do not receive your Backup Completion Notices. With the advent of SOX Compliance and all the anomalies it bestows on Backup Administrators, i.e. it is a SOX requirement to show proof that your backups completed successfully on any selected day, this is the mechanism by which we can show that we are able to perform a restore.
Only this morning we had a problem with our exchange server, with the result that all my Backup Completion Notices were not delivered and lost forever, because NetWorker does not have its own Email Client, there is no mechanism to queue Backup Completion Notices, or is there?.
As far as I am aware most other proprietary applications nowadays come with their own built in Email Client that maximizes their use in any SOX compliant environment.
Are they thinking of making one available anytime soon?
To date I have for sometime utilized BLAT for my Backup Completion Notices, something which has to be considered, installed and managed outside the boundaries of the NetWorker application.
Something to be thinking about, when you do not receive your Backup Completion Notices. With the advent of SOX Compliance and all the anomalies it bestows on Backup Administrators, i.e. it is a SOX requirement to show proof that your backups completed successfully on any selected day, this is the mechanism by which we can show that we are able to perform a restore.
Only this morning we had a problem with our exchange server, with the result that all my Backup Completion Notices were not delivered and lost forever, because NetWorker does not have its own Email Client, there is no mechanism to queue Backup Completion Notices, or is there?.
As far as I am aware most other proprietary applications nowadays come with their own built in Email Client that maximizes their use in any SOX compliant environment.
ble1
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March 2nd, 2007 00:00
dk3
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March 8th, 2007 11:00
seriously, why are you using Networker notifications to proof your backups as successful? Networker's logfile gives you the same information and won't be lost if your Exchange server is down. I can't imaging that it's a requirement by Sarbanes-Oxley to proof the validate of backups by (unsigned) emails. Personally I'm using notifications to get a quick overview on backup jobs because it's more comfortable to review regular backups as Networker only shows the last status of a group on GUI. mminfo and logfiles should be the tool of choice to really verify backups...
best regards.
IKP1
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March 13th, 2007 06:00
You don't say which platform you are running NetWorker on and as you are using blat I am assuming its the windoes version. The Windows version of Networker has a extension binary with is included within the distribution "smtpmail" which can be used to email any or all notifications to your email environment.
Have you also considered using an external email address to send these to in the event that your corporate email environment in unavailable. smtpmail can be setup to send the mail to multiple addresses from the command options.
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Davevail
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March 22nd, 2007 17:00