Joni, Do you have an enterprise scheduler like Control-M or Autosys? This tool (or other third party scheduler tools) will allow you to sequence jobs based on previous jobs or resource (tape drive) utilization. A nice feature of a third party tool, is that it simplifies integration with other batch processing that you may have dependencies on.
Alternatively, can you specify each filesystem seperately and use the "wait=yes" parameter? ============================================ Backup node NAS1 /vol/vol1 toc=yes wait=yes Backup node NAS1 /vol/vol2 toc=yes wait=yes Backup node NAS1 /vol/vol3 toc=yes wait=yes Backup node NAS1 /vol/vol4 toc=yes wait=yes Etc. etc....... =========================================== Have two scripts running simultaneously backing up different filesystems Cheers, Neil Strand Legg Mason Storage Engineer (410) 580-7491 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Help with script? Hello everyone, I have a situation with how we back up our NAS environment through NDMP backups. We currently have 3 data movers that each have 30 + file systems mounted on each one. Each data mover had 2 dedicated tape drives for their backup/restores. We used to just enter the backup node command and submit all of the backup jobs at the same time, but due to resource constraints on our NAS control station we can no longer submit them all at the same time and just let them queue. What I would like to do is set up some type of script/macro that would start running a backup of the first 2 file systems and then when one of the backups complete continue on with the third backup job and so on and so forth. Has anyone ever written a script such as what I want to accomplish or something similar? And would you be willing to show me the logic/syntax of how you do it? Any help with this is greatly appreciated!!!! I know that what I want to do CAN be done, my problem is I don't have the know how to do it. Thanks in advance! ******************************** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III Phone Number: (717)302-9966 Fax: (717) 302-9826 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************** IMPORTANT: E-mail sent through the Internet is not secure. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send any confidential or sensitive information to us via electronic mail, including social security numbers, account numbers, or personal identification numbers. Delivery, and or timely delivery of Internet mail is not guaranteed. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send time sensitive or action-oriented messages to us via electronic mail. This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author by replying to this message and then kindly delete the message. Thank you.
