Simple Tara Teradata Netbackup backup shell script - handles multiple Jobs

Here is a simple script to run Tara Teradata Netbackup backups.


In the example below, I am backing up 3 jobs in 2 batches as follows:

• On its own
• 2650_FullBackup_6Stream_4week_ret.arc
• The following two in parallel
• 2650_FullBackup_2Stream_4week_ret.arc
• TD_5550_FULLBACKUP_4STR.arc

Run this from the command line like this:
/usr/local/bin/run_tara_job.ksh DEBUG=0 JOB_NAME=2650_FullBackup_6Stream_4week_ret.arc#:2650_FullBackup_2Stream_4week_ret.arc:TD_5550_FULLBACKUP_4STR.arc# >/var/misc/log/run_tara_job.log 2>&1


Or set up a cron job like this:
0 19 19 7 * /usr/local/bin/run_tara_job.ksh DEBUG=0 JOB_NAME=2650_FullBackup_6Stream_4week_ret.arc#:2650_FullBackup_2Stream_4week_ret.arc:TD_5550_FULLBACKUP_4STR.arc# >/var/misc/log/run_tara_job.log 2>&1

Note - you will need the Job Names from the Tara scripts (typically find these in /opt/teradata/tara/server/sr directory) or from the Tara GUI.


#!/bin/ksh -x
# Program: run_tara_job.ksh
# Description: Run Tara backup job.
# Parameters: JOB_NAME=
# Version: 0.1 gml 19-Jul-2011 Initial version


SEP=":"
SUBSEP="#"              # take care not to pick a delimiter that interferes with greps
DEBUG=0
eval $@


BKP_ROOT_DIR=/opt/teradata/tara/server/bin
TARA_BKP_PASSWD_FILE=/opt/teradata/tara/server/bin/tara.pwd


if [ -z "$JOB_NAME" ]
then
  echo "ERROR: No JOB_NAME arg. It is mandatory"
  exit 1
fi


JOB_NAME=`echo $JOB_NAME | tr "$SEP" " "`




cd $BKP_ROOT_DIR


#exit 0


for JOB in `echo $JOB_NAME`
do
  WAIT_FLAG=`echo $JOB | grep -c "\${SUBSEP}"`
  if [ $WAIT_FLAG -gt 0 ]
  then
    JOB=`echo $JOB | tr -d "$SUBSEP"`
    echo $JOB
  fi
  echo "Starting job $JOB at `date`"
  # note -w will wait for tara job to complete fully
  if [ $DEBUG -eq 0 ]
  then
    ./taralaunch -u administrator -e $TARA_BKP_PASSWD_FILE -j $JOB -w &
  else
    echo "./taralaunch -u administrator -e $TARA_BKP_PASSWD_FILE -j $JOB -w" &
  fi
  if [ $WAIT_FLAG -gt 0 ]
  then
    wait
  fi
done