Backup Exec "reminder" notifications

**tk421** · December 23rd, 2003, 05:08 PM

I got a request from one of my customers using Backup Exec 9.0 that seems pretty reasonable and useful, but can't seem to find the feature in the software. The request is to setup a way to remind the person who handles inserting and storing the tapes when the FULL and QUARTERLY backups are set to run. (The rest of the month, a differential job runs, and he just switches out tapes every few days on his own.)

This does seem like a pretty important feature to have, since the full backup runs on the first monday of every month, and the quarterly backup runs only 4 times a year. These jobs are pretty easy to lose track of, so it seems logical that the program would have the ability to send a notification some time before a job is to begin, saying "hey, feed me a new tape, big boy."

But I can't find such a feature. The notifications only seem to have the option to be sent AFTER a job has completed, which does me no good. There are the Pre/Post commands, but I don't know if or how this would be useful to me.

Anyone else wondering the same thing? anyone found a solution?

**silencio** · December 23rd, 2003, 09:08 PM

I know there's an option to run a program before running the backup. You could script something... It's been awhile since I've run BE though... seems like there's a better way to do this. Another option would be to manually setup a batch/script in scheduler to alert users. I'd like to see the next version dump xml files that outlook calenders can import.