Hello all. We've started using a homegrown solution (an attempt at one, anyway) for handling vacations, holidays and other situations where there are no operators present to change the tape(s). The reason we need it is of course that we use a daily tape rotation with offsite tape storage and must be present in order to have everything flow nicely. It's more or less just a different take on what's already been hinted at in various places.
It basically checks whether today is a holiday/vacation or not and attempts to stop the director if it is (and no jobs are in progress or are queued). We also replace the Webacula front page with a static HTML page and mails a notification to our support mail queue. It's a script which runs in crontab every 12 hrs (at 06.00 and 18.00). We always start our backups at 19.00. If it's currently not a vacation date, the script attempts to start the director again. Should I post the script here to get some constructive critique, or does it belong somewhere else? -- Tor Willy Austerslått ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
