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December 21st, 2016 11:00
Disable Backup Job
Hi there,
Is there a way to disable a backup job in VDP / Avamar from Command Line using mccli?
Thanks
Suhas
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umichklewis
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December 22nd, 2016 13:00
Do you mean to cancel a running backup job or disable a client/policy?
List running jobs
mccli activity show --active
Cancelling a running job
mccli activity cancel --id=String --wait[=min]; where id equals the job you see listed
Disabling a client
mccli client edit --name=String --enabled=false
You can find specific examples in the MCCLI guide available on the EMC Support Site.
Let us know if that helps!
Karl
suhasvm
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December 22nd, 2016 13:00
Hi There,
So before
mccli client edit --domain=/vc-ip/VirtualMachines --name=String --enabled=false
root@vdp:~/#: mccli client show --domain=/vcenter-dr.happycow.local/VirtualMachines --name=aa
0,23000,CLI command completed successfully.
Attribute Value
------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------
Client Name aa
Fully Qualified Name /vcenter-dr.happycow.local/VirtualMachines/aa_UDK8bfa83W64EAJWgdWB6A
Client Type Virtual Machine
Operating System windows7Server64Guest
Paging No
CID 97fbfc9175384a836066a7f723bb881397cbd8ac
CID Assigned 2016-12-22 19:19:37 IST
Disabled No
Agent Last Started 2016-12-23 03:09:51 IST
Override Group Retention No
Retention Policy Default Retention
Overtime Option No overtime allowed
Restore Only No
Avamar encryption method High
Override Encryption No
Allow CIS Yes
Allow CIS file selection Yes
Override CIS retention No
Browse Timeout 10 seconds
Contact Name N/A
Contact Phone N/A
Contact Email N/A
Contact Location N/A
Contact Notes N/A
Member of Group /vcenter-dr.happycow.local/VirtualMachines/e
Member of Group /vcenter-dr.happycow.local/Default Virtual Machine Group
Plugin Windows VMware Image(3016)
Initial Install Date 2016-12-22 19:19:37 IST
Last Version Registered 2016-12-22 19:19:37 IST
Last Successful Backup N/A
After:
root@vdp:~/#: mccli client show --domain=/vcenter-dr.happycow.local/VirtualMachines --name=aa
0,23000,CLI command completed successfully.
Attribute Value
------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------
Client Name aa
Fully Qualified Name /vcenter-dr.happycow.local/VirtualMachines/aa_UDK8bfa83W64EAJWgdWB6A
Client Type Virtual Machine
Operating System windows7Server64Guest
Paging No
CID 97fbfc9175384a836066a7f723bb881397cbd8ac
CID Assigned 2016-12-22 19:19:37 IST
Disabled Yes
Agent Last Started 2016-12-23 03:07:01 IST
Override Group Retention No
Retention Policy Default Retention
Overtime Option No overtime allowed
Restore Only No
Avamar encryption method High
Override Encryption No
Allow CIS Yes
Allow CIS file selection Yes
Override CIS retention No
Browse Timeout 10 seconds
Contact Name N/A
Contact Phone N/A
Contact Email N/A
Contact Location N/A
Contact Notes N/A
Member of Group /vcenter-dr.happycow.local/VirtualMachines/e
Member of Group /vcenter-dr.happycow.local/Default Virtual Machine Group
Plugin Windows VMware Image(3016)
Initial Install Date 2016-12-22 19:19:37 IST
Last Version Registered 2016-12-22 19:19:37 IST
Last Successful Backup N/A
The client is disabled. However, the job does not come as disabled in the VDP GUI. However, the backup fails for this VM. Not a very expected way. I thought the VDP Job will be listed as disabled.
But, I will take this answer any day. Thanks.
Ryan_Johnson
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December 22nd, 2016 20:00
From my experience VDP and Avamar are separate products. They share a lot of things but you can't assume what is documented in Avamar will work in VDP. You need to be very cautious doing things in mccli in VDP. If you want Avamar functionality you should purchase Avamar.
"VDP job" = A combination of Avamar group, schedule, dataset, retention and clients.
Avamar job = an individual backup, restore or replication job running.
I highly recommending disabling a job using what is documented in the VDP admin guide. With that said what you are trying to do is a function of groups and probably is possible in mccli.
I use mccli activity cancel --id= all the time in VDP as there is no function in VDP GUI that lets you do this.