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Re: Utility/reporting tool to list filesystems/drives not backed up

2004-11-11 10:15:29
Subject: Re: Utility/reporting tool to list filesystems/drives not backed up
From: Mike <mikee AT MIKEE.ATH DOT CX>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:15:12 -0600
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, William Rosette wrote:

> I have a utility that has been invaluable to me called Servergraph and it
> has this specific report "Warning: failed backups detected for some of your
> machines" that helps with what you might be looking for.
>
> Thank You,
> Bill Rosette
> Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International
> WWJD
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> Has anyone a utility (commercial or freeware) that can produce a report
> of which filesystems (HPUX, Solaris, Windows directories or drive
> letters) are not backed up? Essentially it would have to do a
> directly/drive listing, compare it to what the dsm.sys or TSM has in its
> database and list the differences. This would avoid missing complete
> filesystems or drive letters (in Windows) all together.
>
> So far I was unable to find such an item but it seems like this is a
> very common problem especially when you deal with hundreds of servers
> and a lot of changes (drive, directory, filesystem adds in particular)
> that can occur.
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> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Mark
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Recently I posted some c code (windows vc++ v5.0) to this list
that did what you're asking.

Mike