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March 20th, 2014 08:00
Networker Cloning - Best Practice
Hello!
Since we just upgraded our Networker environment to 8.1.1.3 a saw the opportunity replace all of our old cloning and archive scripts that we are running through Task Scheduler in Windows.
Our month clones script was very easy to replace since I could just set the scheduler to run for example every fourteen of the month. But how can i do this for our year clones? What i wan't is to create a clone job that runs every year in January, the gui only gives me two options and that is running the script weekly or monthly.
All suggestions are welcome!
Have a great day!
// Anthon
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tonyalbers
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March 20th, 2014 08:00
This might sound strange, but why would you want to clone only once a year? Is it for cloning the yearly backups?
I'd just use savegrp cloning for that TBH.
Just create a group and schedule that i.e. runs a full on 12th monday every year.
you might have to use nsradmin to do it, but it works.:
nsradmin> create type: NSR schedule; name: full_12th_mon; comment:; period:Month; action: skip; override: full 12 monday every year
type: NSR schedule;
name: full_12th_mon;
comment: ;
period: Month;
action: skip;
override: full 12 monday every year;
Create? y
created resource id 58.0.139.57.46.0.0.0.75.175.42.83.10.15.160.220(1)
nsradmin>
/tony
AnthonH
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March 21st, 2014 01:00
Well, good question! Im just trying to replace the script we had and that was cloning data and set 10 year retention time if the month was for example January.
Your answer is exactly what i need. It just like you say, better to have a group that run once a year and then set the retention time to 10 years.
Thank you very much and have a great weekend.
// Anthon