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[Veritas-bu] NBU Duplication Activity in 4.5

2003-07-25 11:46:18
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU Duplication Activity in 4.5
From: plblists AT iotk DOT com (Peter L. Buschman)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:46:18 +0200
Excellent.  That's what I needed to hear :)

At 09:52 AM 7/25/2003 -0500, Rob Worman wrote:
>Actually, ANY duplication job (i.e. bpdbuplicate launched via CLI, via the 
>GUI, or via vault) will look the same in the activity monitor.
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>At 4:19 PM +0200 7/25/03, Peter L. Buschman wrote:
>>Bob,
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>>Thanks for that explanation!  Do I understand you correctly that 
>>bpduplicate, by itself, does not put jobs in the job monitor?
>>( Rather, that BPVault, as a wrapper around bpduplicate, puts jobs in the 
>>job monitor to show what it is doing... )
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>>If that is the case, I'll have to stick with prowling through bperror 
>>logs ( this is via a remote console so I can't use a local
>>logfile... ) to pick up the duplication activity.
>>
>>--PLB
>>
>>At 07:46 AM 7/25/2003 -0400, Bob Grabbe wrote:
>>>The full version of Vault under 4.5 doesn't give a lot more information,
>>>but it does at least show the jobs in the activity monitor. What we get
>>>is one job that is the main vault job, and for each process it kicks
>>>off, another job showing what backups are being duped.
>>>I.e., my main vault job shows as active, and shows the robot being
>>>used, what kind of job (Full, Incremental, Cum), and has an avtive
>>>status. The duplication job that is started by the vault job shows the
>>>backup list that the process is duping. These are separated the same way
>>>3.4 does, by the media id that is being used for the source. Under the
>>>detailed status you get the tapes that are being used, mount info, etc.
>>>All the same info you get for a regular backup. What you can't tell is
>>>where in the list it is.
>>>It is useful for being able to tell when you have a vault job running,
>>>but not a whole lot else.
>>>Bob Grabbe
>>>Dominos Pizza LLC
>>>grabbeb AT dominos DOT com
>>>
>>>  >>> "Peter L. Buschman" <plb AT iotk DOT com> 7/24/03 1:26:45 PM >>>
>>>
>>>Can somebody out there running BPVault or other bpduplicate scripts
>>>under
>>>NBU 4.5 please help me out?   :)
>>>( I am stuck with 3.4 at the moment... )
>>>
>>>What data does NBU include in the job monitor when the bpduplicate
>>>command
>>>is run?  In 3.4, this activity is invisible
>>>in the job monitor, but I understand that 4.5 reports on this.  Does
>>>anyone
>>>have any examples of the records this produces?
>>>
>>>bpdbjobs -report -all_columns output would be fantastic.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>
>>>          Peter Buschman
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