[Veritas-bu] Netbackup DR Tape List

Hi Bruce,


I wrote a script that generates such a list of tapes based on a configuration 
file.
The configuration file contains tuples of (class, schedule, start time, end
time).
Then it uses bpimagelist to create a list of FRAGs from which a unique set
of
tapes is extracted, and these tapes are then suspended. The caveat is that
config file has to be manually created every time by changing start time
and
end time, assuming that classes and schedules dont vary so much. For DB
agents Backup Policy schedules are the only ones used in the configuration.

Then you can take that set of tapes together with the most recent catalog
backup and use it. We pull it out of the robot and vault it.

This is all assuming a total disaster in the datacenter. If the scenario is
that just
one or a few clients suffer a disaster, then just running bpimagelist or
bpimmedia
with appropriate options on the master server will do the trick.

I can send you the script if you want, but it's really just a bpimagelist |
awk with
some bits and pieces around.

Cheers,


Stanislav Markovic
Technology - Storage Administrator

BASE, Rue Colonel Bourg 122-1
1140 Bruxelles
email: stanislav.markovic AT base DOT be
phone: +32/485/54 15 61







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Subject:  [Veritas-bu] Netbackup DR Tape List


Hi All,

I am looking for the easiest way to pull a tape list from netbackup that
will enable me to recover the entire system. We are running Netbackup 3.2GA
with Standard, Windows, SAP, Oracle classes defined. Each client, in most
instances have a combination of these class types defined, ie standard +
oracle, standard + sap etc etc. What I would like to do is, for each
client,
pull the last successfull FULL backup tape list, the last successfull CINC
backup tape list, last successfull SAP or Oracle (database & archive)  tape
list. At the end of it all, I would like to be able to use the report
generated by this script in a DR situation, I should be able to look at a
system, and say "right - i need these tapes to be recalled", and i should
be
able to recover the system in full. I was wondering if anyone has any
suggestions, undocumented command parameters, scripts that would make this
whole excersize a load simpler than what it sounds.

Any comments and/or suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated.

Thank you
Bruce McAlister
EDS Ireland c/o Xerox Ireland
UNIX System Administrator
* +353 1 608 6368
* bruce.mcalister AT irl.xerox DOT com

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