No way to do the same thing as checking the "clone" checkbox in group property but telling Networker to do the clone only after 11:00PM for example?

If he does the clone at the same time he backup, my backup will take too much time and will not be finished when work hours begins which is not good

Do you know where I can find some example scripts ?

(you are a great help for me, you are always responding to all my threads )

It means it will clone upon backup has finished. Check nsr_group manual or online help in NMC.


Yes.


Yes.


Use mminfo to generate ssid list according to your preferences.

No. NetWorker via GUI enables you to run cloning and by design that will happen after your group has finished. If you wish to change it you can of course, but it will require using CLI.


Clone during the day then - use CLI to make it automatic.


I have no idea, but script is nothing but calling mminfo to generate ssid list and putting that into some file. That file is that called by nsrclone. Check manuals for both and give it a try manually. When you get desired result make it as script and call it from external scheduler whenever you want.

Hrvoje has already provided the answer, but I might be able to help with the scripting examples if your environment is unix. If you are interested in pursuing this, please reply and let me know.

My experience with creating scripts to automatically clone in the 7.2.1 environment is:
1. Be very careful with mminfo. I have found that if you don't use the -t option to set the time frame, then the mminfo output did not always provide the desired savesets/volumes. I use -t "today" to get the volumes that have been written to today, but my backups start after midnight. Since it sounds like you start your backups at 8 PM, you could start testing with: mminfo -t "yesterday 20:00" and see if that selects the correct volumes/savesets.

2. If your devices are restricted as to which pools they can mount, you should premount the source tape to an appropriate drive because the nsrclone command seems to result in the tape being loaded into any available drive, which may or may not be one allowed to mount that pool. I grab the last device used for the volume from the daemon.log file and premount the tape there:
nsrjb -lf "device_name" "source_volume_name"

3. To speed up your cloning, clone an entire volume rather than by save sets. I use:
nsrclone -vb "Clone_pool" "source_volume_name"


I hope this helps, and, as I said, if you are using Unix and are interested, I can provide more about how I create the source_volume_list and/or pull out the correct device_name for tape premounting. Just reply and let me know.

Good Luck,
Paul
M-F 8:30-5 PDT

I usually address that by setting up read hostname parameter.


Actually it depends on number of savesets and their size so script is always site customized. Ideally script should sort ssids in a way to handle ssids not spanning tapes first and then those spanning. If you scripts takes into account number of drives you must pay attention to that.

That approach has a small problem. Imagine you have volume 000A. Now you run cloning and you have cloned data from 000A. On next day that volume is used again for new data. If you run cloning now again in a way you do you will clone AGAIN already cloned data.

In fact, I am on a windows environment

I writed a very simple batch file which seems to do the job
It list all media actually in library which belongs to pool I wanna clone
It write it to a file
I launch nsrclone to clone all media listed in file to default clone

mminfo -r "volume" -q location=NAMEOFMYLIBRARY -q pool=Pool1 -q pool=Pool2 -q pool=Pool3 -q pool=Pool3 -q pool=Pool4 -q pool=Pool5 > liste.txt

nsrclone -v -b "Default Clone" -f liste.txt

The problem which Hrvoje mentioned, can be corrected by adding
-t'last day'
condition to your "mminfo" query. It'll display only the savesets made on last day.
read the manpage on mminfo for other options to specify time (like 'last week' which seems to fit your bill)

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Dmitri Ryjikh

You are right

But it think it will not be a problem as I will do only clone one time per week, and cloned media will be taken to storage in bank.
So I won't clone same data again

Well, practically - it'll work, since there's no tapes older then a week in the library, but I'd still add this condition just to make things last week'

It won't hurt but your script will look more professional, imho